In 2012, Hong Kong passed its Competition Ordinance which provides a right of follow-on action, but no right of standalone action to private parties. Through reviewing the legislative history, this article found that such right is absent primarily because small and medium-sized enterprises...

On 12 August 2020, the Hong Kong Competition Commission invited the public to comment on its proposal to accept commitments proposed by the Hong Kong Seaport Alliance (Case. no.: EC/03AY). Attached is the comment I submitted to the Commission, which has been published on the Commission's website

In 2012, Hong Kong passed the Competition Ordinance, the region's first cross-sector competition law. In the statue, the government introduced a legal term called “Serious Anti-competitive Conduct” which includes four conducts, namely price fixing, output restriction, market allocation and...

In late 2019, the then chairperson of the Hong Kong Competition Commission announced that the Commission would start making use of the three-track commitment system besides bringing cases to the court. Soon after, in early 2020, the chairperson’s words were put into action. Among the three...

Hong Kong’s Competition Commission first introduced its leniency programme in 2015, which allows cartel members to blow the whistle in exchange for immunity from antitrust fines. In late 2020, the Competition Tribunal handed down a judgment in Competition Commission v Quantr Ltd and Cheung Man...