Notice of Annual General Meeting

Our council member, Thomas Lee, on behalf of the Society of Construction Law Hong Kong, cordially invites you to an evening talk to be held at the Hong Kong Club on Tuesday 17th June 2025 following the SCLHK AGM.

José-Antonio Maurellet, SC will present his views on the fascinating topic of “No Man is an Island Entire of Itself” – the role of Hong Kong Courts in Supporting Arbitrations, and provide his thoughts on the pressing issues of the day.

About the speaker:
José-Antonio Maurellet, SC is the current Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association. José is a Hong Kong born Eurasian. He is an English, Cantonese and French native speaker. He also can speak some Mandarin. After reading law at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University, he was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 2000 and to the Inner Bar in 2016. He has sat as a Deputy High Court Judge for periods between 2018 to 2021, and since October 2021 has been appointed as a Recorder of the Court of First Instance.

During his career, Jose has advised and acted in numerous shareholder disputes, winding up petitions, and applications arising out of liquidations of companies (for example applications for provisional liquidators, receivers, validation orders, private examinations, unfair preference proceedings). Jose has also dealt with director disqualification proceedings commenced by the Official Receiver as well as the SFC. He is a member of and sits on the board of directors of the International Insolvency Institute. He regularly acts in disputes arising from banking/financial services, in particular alleged mis-selling of financial products.

Jose’s clients include the Securities and Futures Commission as well as the Listing Division of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. He has appeared before the Listing Appeals Committee, the Takeovers and Mergers Panel as well as the Securities and Futures Appeal Tribunal. He was admitted in 2020 as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, British Virgin Islands circuit. He is also a registered foreign lawyer with rights of audience in the Singapore International Commercial Court.

Mr. Maurellet is a member of the HKIAC Panel of Arbitrators and the Panel for Financial Services Disputes; as well as the HKIAC Panel of Emergency Arbitrators. He served as Council member of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre from October 2018 to October 2024. He is also on the Panel of Arbitrators of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. He is also a CEDR accredited mediator. He was a Contributing Editor of the Hong Kong Civil Procedure (“the White Book”) from 2003 to 2018, is a Consultant Editor of the Hong Kong Law Reports and Digest and is also a Contributing Editor of “Company Law in Hong Kong.”

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of the Society of Construction Law Hong Kong in association with the Academy of Experts will be held at the Hong Kong Club, No.1 Jackson Road, Central, Hong Kong on Tuesday 17 June 2025 commencing at 6.15 p.m.

AGENDA
 

1.             Apologies for absence

2.             Adoption of the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 7 June 2023

3.             Annual Report by the Chairman

4.             Treasurer's Report

5.             To consider and adopt the Annual Report

6.             To consider and adopt the Treasurer's Report

7.             To appoint Council Members pursuant to Article 8.1.4 of the Constitution of the Society

8.             Re-Appointment of Auditors

9.             Any other business

Ben Bury

The Secretary to Society of Construction Law of Hong Kong