To strengthen our firm’s expertise in legal practice concerning building management issues, and as a token of our firm’s support to community service, our Associate Mr. Mathew Liu has completed a 5-day training course on property management organized by the Law Society of Hong Kong in September and October 2023. The course prepares Mr. Liu for joining our Partners Mr. Roy Leung and Mr. Sidney Ho as solicitor volunteers in the Home Affairs Department’s free legal advice service on building management.

Completing the course is also an extension of our regular and routine services in acting for incorporated owners, management companies and individual owners in building management matters. Recently, our Partner Mr. Roy Leung and Associate Mr. Mathew Liu were invited to attend an Annual General Meeting of a sizable and luxurious development in the Southern district to provide on-site legal support. In addition, we have been acting for a client in an arbitration concerning building management disputes between an incorporated owners and an individual owner, led by our Partner Mr. Tommy Tam, assisted by Mr. Mathew Liu and Paralegal (pending admission) Ms. Crystal Yip. On another case led by Mr. Tommy Tam, assisted by Trainee Ms. Nicole Corpuz, we are representing an incorporated owners in the enforcement of a court judgment against individual owners with satisfactory outcome. Throughout the years, we have also successfully completed applications for the formation of 19 owners’ incorporations upon the dissolution of civil servants co-operative building societies (led by our Partner Mr. Tommy Tam and assisted by our Senior Associate Mr. Trevor Lee).

Building management is an evolving area of law. The Chief Executive Mr. John Lee recently announced in the Policy Address 2023 that the Government will introduce a bill later this year to amend the Building Management Ordinance (BMO), to strengthen the regulations in respect of maintenance projects, minutes of meetings, financial statements, etc.. Solicitors of our firm will stay tuned on the law reform, in order to render up-to-date assistance in facilitating stakeholders in adapting to the improved statutory regulations.