Eddie Look
The Legal 500 2020 rankings are announced for Asia-Pacific
Tanner De Witt is proud to once again be recommended this year in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific Guide 2020 for its four main practice areas; corporate and commercial, labour and employment, restructuring and insolvency and litigation and dispute resolution. Notably, partners Ian De Witt, Robin Darton and Kim Boreham have retained their leading…Read More
Passing Off: The Jif Lemon Case (Reckitt & Colman Ltd v Borden Inc)
An article discussing the tort of passing off, with reference to the case Reckitt & Colman Ltd v Borden Inc [1990] 1 All E.R. 873, also known as the Jif Lemon case, a leading decision of the House of Lords on passing off. Passing off…Read More
What you need to know about the latest changes to the Trade Descriptions Ordinance
The latest amendments to the Trade Descriptions Ordinance (“TDO”) came into effect in Hong Kong on 19 July 2013. The amendments: widened the scope of the TDO; introduced new offences, including misleading omissions, aggressive commercial practices, bait advertising, bait and switch, and wrongly accepting payment;…Read More