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Recourse for LP investors when an investment goes wrong
Read moreFinancial litigation roundup
Welcome to the latest edition of our financial litigation roundup, which considers recent judgments, ongoing cases and legal developments from the banking and financial world in the UK and Asia.
Read moreWealth and Trusts quarterly digest
Our quarterly digest aims to bring you up to date commentary and analysis on key sector developments. RPC’s tax, wealth and trusts teams are able to provide a wide ranging service to assist you and your clients in responding to market trends and legal developments. We would welcome the opportunity to discuss any concerns you may have and always welcome feedback on the content of our publications.
Read moreClaimant investors establish advisory duty against bank
In the most recent so-called 'mis-selling' case in Hong Kong, three claimant investors succeeded in establishing that a bank owed them a contractual duty to exercise reasonable care and skill with regard to their portfolio of investments held with the bank.
Read moreFollow the money
How do you get your money back from a potential fraudster who has siphoned the money off into planes, luxury houses abroad and mysterious accounts? The English courts have a broad range of remedies available to help.
Read moreSurge in wire transfer fraud leaves victims looking to banks for redress
Read moreFinancial List signposts tough road for contractual construction
A recent decision in the High Court (Hayfin v Windermere VII CMBS), one of the first from the Financial List, has demonstrated a strict approach to contractual construction and interpretation in relation to negotiated documentation for financial traded instruments. It also shows the potential of the Financial List to provide helpful and clear guidance on the application of existing case law in the context of financial markets.
Read moreVTech and Hong Kong’s cyber laws
VTech is a multi-billion-dollar global supplier of electronic toys and learning products for children, and reportedly the world’s biggest manufacturer of cordless telephones. In short, it is a giant company producing high-tech electronic goods – surely, you might think, capable of fending off a cyber-attack.
Read moreFinancial Litigation roundup
Welcome to the latest edition of our Financial Litigation roundup. In this edition, we consider recent judgments and ongoing cases from the banking and financial world in the UK and Asia, as well as regulatory developments in those jurisdictions
Read moreFinancial Litigation roundup
Welcome to the latest edition of our Financial Litigation roundup. In this edition, we consider recent judgments and ongoing cases from the banking and financial world in the UK and Asia, as well as regulatory developments in those jurisdictions
Read moreCommercial disputes and regulatory – Hong Kong
Faceless fraud – scams in an online world
Read moreHong Kong: legal advice privilege – important development for corporates
In an important judgment, the Hong Kong Court of Appeal has recently decided that legal advice privilege (often referred to as “solicitor-client” or “attorney-client” privilege) can extend to confidential internal communications between employees of a client organisation, provided those communications were created for the sole or dominant purpose of obtaining legal advice.
Read moreHong Kong courts clarify personal data concerns in civil litigation
In a series of cases in Hong Kong in the last year or so, the courts have brought some welcome clarification to the vexed issue of the interaction between disclosure of relevant documents in civil disputes and balancing competing confidentiality and personal data concerns arising out of the contents of such documents.
Read moreLegal alert – July 2015
Milton Furniture Limited v Brit Insurance
Read moreFinancial Litigation roundup
Welcome to the latest edition of our Financial Litigation roundup.
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