White Collar Crime

Author: Professor Benny K B Kwok

Forensic Accountancy  (Fourth Edition)  provides comprehensive insight into forensic accounting and demonstrates how accountants and finance professionals might perform when acting as advisors, experts or investigators in disputes, litigations, arbitrations or fraud investigations. 

In this fourth edition,  this definitive title sets a benchmark of best practices in forensic accounting and has been written in concise English, without the unnecessary use of jargon, catering to the needs of those less trained in the specialty and bridging the gap between accountants and legal practitioners. Auditors, bankers, insurers, regulators, litigators, in-house counsels and lay clients will find this book as a route to uncharted territory in accounting, revealing the unspoken messages behind transactions, fund flows and financial documents. 

The third edition includes some important updates as follows:

1. New cases on the interpretation and application of the National Security Law;
2. Updates to sanctions in relation to the Taliban, Isil & Al-Qaida;
3. The Hong Kong extradition case of Ramanjit Singh concerning treaty interpretation and refusal of surrender on account of political and religious beliefs;
4. Recent human rights cases from the United Kingdom on challenges to extradition; and
5. The Privy Council case of Fang & Ors v HM Attorney General (Jersey) concerning waiver of state immunity in mutual legal assistance proceedings.

Author: Dominic Wai

The second edition of the Butterworths Hong Kong Anti-Money Laundering Handbook gives a summary of the Government’s consultation exercise on legislative proposals to enhance AML regulations and a list of updated Guidelines published by regulatory bodies for operation of Schedule 2 of the Ordinance, including the Monetary Authority, the SFC etc.

Authors: Ian McWalters SC, Andrew Bruce SC

Bribery and Corruption is a detailed and expansive guide to bribery and corruption law in Hong Kong. The jurisprudence relating to the common law offence of misconduct in public office continues to grow as the offence is more frequently employed by prosecutors against abuses of their office by public officials. Recent case law which helps to define the parameters of the offence is discussed. In order to make the book a more practical tool for legal professionals, the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (Cap 201) and the Independent Commission Against Corruption Ordinance (Cap 204) are included.

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Author(s): Peter Yu, Emily Yu

The Butterworths Hong Kong Police Force Handbook includes detailed analysis and annotations on the Police Force Ordinance (Cap 232).