Hong Kong must depart from "English" approach to common law recognition
Mr Justice Harris has warned against forum shopping in offshore "letter-box" jurisdictions where a winding-up has already been filed in Hong Kong (Credit: Shutterstock.com/seenual)
The “restricted” view that common law recognition favours proceedings in a debtor’s place of incorporation does not serve Hong Kong well, Mr Justice Harris has said in a decision adjourning the recognition of soft-touch provisional liquidators appointed in “questionable” circumstances in Bermuda.
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