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Implementation of mandatory Building Energy Codes

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • Hong Kong
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  • September 24 2009

Owing to low participation rates for the voluntary Energy Efficiency Registration Scheme for Buildings, the government has drafted a legal framework for mandatory implementation of the Building Energy Codes

Hong Kong edges closer to introduction of competition law

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • Hong Kong
  • -
  • September 24 2009

Gregory So, Under Secretary for Hong Kong's Commerce and Economic Development Bureau (CEDB) today announced new details relating to the Hong Kong government's proposed cross-sector Competition Bill, and re-affirmed the government's commitment to introducing a bill to the Legislative Council in the 20092010 legislative session

HKEx publishes consultation paper on proposed changes to the Listing Rules regarding connected transactions

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • Hong Kong
  • -
  • October 8 2009

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited has recently published a consultation paper on proposed changes to the Main Board Listing Rules and the GEM Listing Rules regarding connected transactions

Hong Kong's regulatory regime for the marketing of funds - SFC consults market

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • Hong Kong
  • -
  • October 9 2009

In September 2009, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) issued a Consultation Paper to solicit feedback on its proposals to fine tune the existing regulatory regime for the sale of investments in Hong Kong

The Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong releases new guidelines on sales descriptions of uncompleted residential properties

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • Hong Kong
  • -
  • October 9 2009

On 7 October 2009, the Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong (REDA) issued a new set of guidelines on the sales descriptions and information in sales brochures and advertisements of uncompleted residential properties (the "Guidelines"

Employment (Amendment) Bill 2009 - criminal consequence for non-payment of tribunal awards

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • Hong Kong
  • -
  • October 14 2009

The Employment (Amendment) Bill 2009 was introduced to the Legislative Council in June this year

Can the Building Authority add new grounds for rejecting building plans?

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • Hong Kong
  • -
  • January 7 2013

On 19 November 2012, Mr. Justice of Appeal Johnson Lam handed down his judgment in the case Building Authority v. Appeal Tribunal (Buildings) HCAL602011

Collection of fingerprints to record attendance breaches personal privacy

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • Hong Kong
  • -
  • November 4 2009

A recent investigation report published by the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (the "Commissioner") found that collecting an employee's fingerprint to record the employee's attendance at work breached the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance ("PDPO"

Consultation papers relating to disclosure of price sensitive informationinside information

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • Hong Kong
  • -
  • April 7 2010

On 29 March 2010, the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau ("FSTB") published the "Consultation Paper on The Proposed Statutory Codification of Certain Requirements to Disclose Price Sensitive Information by Listed Corporations", which proposes to include in the Securities and Futures Ordinance a statutory requirement for a listed corporation to disclose to the public as soon as practicable "price-sensitive information" that has come to its knowledge

Lessons from the CJR - be prepared

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • Hong Kong
  • -
  • April 8 2010

Before the recent Civil Justice Reform (CJR), it was much easier to join a party as a defendant to an action