Chitty On Contracts: Hong Kong Specific Contracts 5th ed

Chitty on Contracts: Hong Kong Specific Contracts 5th ed provides the essential updates to drafting or interpreting contracts following the introduction of Competition Ordinance (Cap. 691), in December 2015, and the Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Ordinance (Cap. 623), introduced in January 2016.

A Supplement to this 5th edition was published in November 2017 and can be ordered seperately.These significant changes are explored in almost every chapter with exhaustive coverage within: Employment Law detailing the Contract (rights of third parties) Ordinance (Cap. 623), enforcing right against the employer and an employer’s duty to indemnify its employee

Construction Contracts detailing both Competition Ordinance (Cap 691) and Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Ordinance (Cap. 623)  

Comprehensive and Authoritative Content:-  

• Mediation content reviewed by Mr. Justice Lam, Vice President of the Hong Kong Court of Appeal.
• Undue influence examines contracts entered into under tremendous inequality of bargaining power, and very often duress.
• Restitution & Unjust Enrichment detailing a new section on Remedies, the essential guidance for legal actions, guiding you to understand how to rectify a wrong right
• Sales of Land highlights an explanation of ‘Fixtures’ expounded, Definition of ‘Normal Common Part’, Condition of Property and Chinese customary law added & Naming rights of buildings.