Date: Wednesday, 8 April 2020
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Venue: RICS office, 3707-09 37/F Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong
CPD Hour: 1.5 formal hours
Language: English 

Overview

The construction industry is vulnerable to payment problems. Security of Payment legislation (SOPL) is one process to ensure the expedient payment for contractors and to provide rapid dispute resolution through mandatory adjudication. SOPL has been adopted in many jurisdictions such as the United Kingdom, Malaysia, and Singapore and there are calls within certain sectors of the industry to adopt some form of SOPL to contracts in Hong Kong.

In this seminar, Dr To, a Chartered Arbitrator, Accredited Mediator, Adjudicator and Barrister-at-law, is going to talk about the Security of Payment legislation in Hong Kong and adjudication as a mean to resolve construction disputes.

Speaker

Dr Christopher To

BEng(Hons), LLB(Hons), LLM, MA, PhD, DEng, PCLL, DipCD, FCIArb, FHKIArb, FSIArb, FIET, FHKIoD, RPE, CEng, CITP, FHKIE, MBCS, HKCS, ARAeS, Chartered Arbitrator, Accredited Mediator, Adjudicator and Barrister-at-law

Dr. To is an independent mediator and arbitrator who is on the panels of various leading global alternative dispute resolution bodies. He has arbitrated a variety of international and domestic cases involving both ad-hoc and institutional arbitrations. He has also mediated many international and domestic cases and is representing clients in cases within the dispute resolution field.

Dr. To is an accredited mediator, chartered arbitrator, chartered engineer, chartered information technology professional, barrister-at-law and a law professor. In May 2018, he was appointed by the Mayor of Weihai to be a member of its International Economic Advisory Council and is a highly sought-after speaker at various.

Enquiry

Mr Peter Au, Partnership Development Manager

Tel: 2116 9719

Email: pau@rics.org

Remarks:

• The organiser reserves the right to cancel or reschedule the seminar at its discretion.
• No refund or cancellation will be accepted, but a substitute delegate is normally permitted. Please inform the organiser of your substitute delegate at least 5 days before the seminar.
• If a typhoon signal no. 8 or above, or black rainstorm warning is in force at least 3 hours before the programme is scheduled to begin, the seminar will be postponed until further notice. Otherwise, it will continue as scheduled.
• Registration will only be confirmed upon receipt of completed registration form and full payment.
• Upon completion of this event, a CPD certificate will be granted. A payment receipt along with the CPD certificate will be sent to you by email with 10 business days after the seminar.