Civil Justice Reform - An Overview The Civil Justice Reforms will come into effect on 2 April 2009. The new court rules aim to improve cost-effectiveness and reduce complexity and delays in court proceedings. The purpose of this bulletin is to briefly highlight some of the major changes to the High Court and District Court Rules, which will come into effect on 2 April 2009. Subsequent bulletins will deal with these topics in more detail. more +
Civil Justice Reform-The Underlying Objectives and Case Management by the Court This legal update follows our September 2008 issue which gave a general overview of the major changes to the High Court and District Court Rules to come into effect on 2 April 2009. This and subsequent issues deal with those changes in more detail. This issue deals with the new "underlying objectives" and active case management by the court. more +
Civil Justice Reform - Pleadings and Statements of Truth This legal update outlines the reforms in relation to pleadings and the introduction of Statements of Truth. more +
Deacons wins 2008 Best Trade Law Firm in Asia award
Deacons received the 2008 Best Trade Law Firm in Asia award at Trade Finance magazine’s Annual Awards for Excellence ceremony in Hong Kong on 3 July 2008. The award recognises the firm's extensive work on a variety of structured trade and commodity financing transactions over the last year, with the majority of the deals involving China, India, Central Asia, Indonesia and Australia.
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Deacons Hong Kong wins 2007 Asia Pacific Firm of the Year
Deacons Hong Kong was awarded the 2007 Asia Pacific Firm of the Year by UK publication Legal Business at an awards ceremony held in London on Thursday, 8th February 2007. It was the first time an Asia based firm has won this highly prestigious and coveted award. The Asia Pacific Firm of the Year award recognises "the outstanding firm in any given country within the region". The profile and complexity of transactions and the cases and matters in which the firm was involved in 2006 are also considered. more +
Deacons awarded 2008 Hong Kong Firm of the Year by MIP
On Wednesday, 9 April 2008, at an awards ceremony at
Claridge’s in London, Deacons was awarded the “Hong Kong
Firm of the Year” by the international publication, Managing
Intellectual Property (MIP).
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Deacons wins third international award for 2007
March 2007 saw the publication of the fifth edition of The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers and the announcement of the Who's Who Legal Awards. Deacons was awarded the "Hong Kong Firm of the Year" for 2007. This is the third international Firm of the Year award Deacons has won in 2007.
