Government announces important civil litigation reforms The government yesterday announced its intention to go ahead with key proposals made by Lord Justice Jackson for the reform of civil litigation costs and funding, including: · significant changes to the rules governing Part 36 offers to settle; · removing the restrictions on contingency fees or "damages-based agreements" (DBAs) for civil litigation; and · abolishing the recoverability of conditional fee agreement (CFA) success fees and after the event (ATE) insurance premiums. The Government Response to its co

The Minimum Wage Ordinance (“MWO”), a very controversial piece of legislation was passed by the Legislative Council on 17th July 2010 and gazetted on 23rd July 2010. On 31st August 2010, members of the Provisional Minimum Wage Commission (“the Commission”), comprising representatives of the business sector, employees, scholars and public officers announced that its members had reached a consensus on the initial minimum wage level to be recommended to the Chief Executive of the HKSAR Government.