ONC Newsletter September 2022

ONC Lawyers
Hong Kong

LEGAL UPDATE
Construction
•	In the absence of a formal written contract, contractor still held liable for additional financing costs resulting from delays
Employment, Privacy & Discrimination
•	Can a director, who is also an employee of the company, vote in favour of a board resolution to pay bonus to himself?
Technology
•	What Hong Kong business needs to know about data transfer – security assessment requirements for cross border data transfer in China
Commercial Crime
•	Asset recovery in email fraud: the position of the second layer recipient
Family & Matrimonial
•	Litigation misconduct is a good reason to depart from equal division, but it is not easily satisfied
Insolvency & Restructuring
•	Directors’ potential liability for costs for unreasonably opposing a winding-up petition
•	Is the liquidator’s perceived lack of independence a ground to convert a voluntary winding up into compulsory winding up?
Intellectual Property
•	To what extent overseas decisions and findings can support disputed trademark application in local court?
Shipping & Logistics
•	Will the failure to lift the “subject” preclude the formation of a binding contract?
FIRM NEWS
•	Mr Ludwig Ng presented the ONC Lawyers Prize for Civil Procedure 2021-22
•	ONC Lawyers ranked by Asialaw Profiles as a “Highly Recommended” Hong Kong law firm in 2022/23
•	Mr Ludwig Ng is listed as an Asialaw Distinguished Practitioner in Restructuring and Insolvency
•	ONC Lawyers is selected Best Overall Law Firm (Hong Kong) in the China Business Law Awards 2022
•	Dr Lawrence Yeung presented in a webinar for the Association of Corporate Counsel on recent development of the Hong Kong Copyright (Amendment) Bill

法律新知
建築
•	即使沒有正式書面合約，承建商仍須就工程延誤導致的額外融資成本負責
僱傭、私隱及歧視
•	同時身為僱員的董事可否投票贊成向自己發放花紅的董事決議案？
科技
•	香港企業應了解的數據傳送規定：中國的跨境數據傳送的安全評估規定
家事及婚姻
•	不當訴訟行為是偏離平均分配原則的有效理由，但不易證明
清盤及重組
•	董事不合理反對清盤呈請或須承擔訟費責任
•	若清盤人被認為欠缺獨立性，這是否構成將自願清盤轉為強制清盤的理據？
知識產權
•	海外判決及裁斷能在多大程度上在本地法院支持受爭議的商標申請？
航運及物流
•	若「限制條件」未獲解除，會否妨礙形成具約束力的合約？
本所動態
•	伍兆榮律師頒發「2021-22 年度柯伍陳律師事務所民事程序獎」
•	柯伍陳律師事務所榮獲 Asialaw Profiles 評選為 2022/23 年度「高度推薦」香港律師事務所
•	伍兆榮律師獲 Asialaw 評選為重組及清盤領域的傑出律師
•	柯伍陳律師事務所在2022 年度商法卓越律所大獎中獲評選為「卓越綜合實力律所（香港）」
•	楊先恒律師為全球企業法律顧問協會的網上研討會講解香港《版權（修訂）條例草案》的近期發展