P.C. Woo & Co. 胡百全律師事務所
Re German Swiss International School Association Ltd
HK Court of First Instance, 26-Jun-2020
The court rules that GSIS is a "club" under the Race Discrimination Ordinance, so parts of the Articles of Association which discriminate on the grounds of race are void. The articles required that candidates for directorship shall be fluent in written and spoken German and that the board meetings shall "as a rule" be conducted in German. Over 70% of students at the school are in the English-speaking stream. Justice Jonathan Harris also identifies numerous other problems with the corporate governance and articles.
HK Court of First Instance, 26-Jun-2020
The court rules that GSIS is a "club" under the Race Discrimination Ordinance, so parts of the Articles of Association which discriminate on the grounds of race are void. The articles required that candidates for directorship shall be fluent in written and spoken German and that the board meetings shall "as a rule" be conducted in German. Over 70% of students at the school are in the English-speaking stream. Justice Jonathan Harris also identifies numerous other problems with the corporate governance and articles.
Ocean Grand's Shipwreck
By popular request, we give our comments on the Ocean Grand debacle. The warning signs of bad governance or worse were there for years, but few picked up on them. We conduct a detailed autopsy, and find plenty of material for regulators and police investigators to get their teeth into. We also look at the characters involved with the companies and what this says about the state of battle for shareholder rights in HK. (31-Jul-2006)
By popular request, we give our comments on the Ocean Grand debacle. The warning signs of bad governance or worse were there for years, but few picked up on them. We conduct a detailed autopsy, and find plenty of material for regulators and police investigators to get their teeth into. We also look at the characters involved with the companies and what this says about the state of battle for shareholder rights in HK. (31-Jul-2006)
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