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Research · Settlement review

Attached documentsSettlement Agreement.pdf· ContractWitness Statement.docx· Evidence+ Add document

What risks should I flag across these documents before advising my client?

Research Assistant

The settlement agreement's indemnity clause is unusually broad and may not survive reasonableness review under Cap. 71. The witness statement also describes conduct that could affect enforceability of the release.

Cross-document inconsistencies

Compare the payment timeline in the agreement with the dates in the witness statement — the assistant cites the exact passages in each upload.

Settlement Agreement.pdf ¶12Control of Exemption Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 71) s.3Chitty on Contracts (HK)

1 pinnedPinned across follow-up questions

Control of Exemption Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 71) s.3

Legislation

Unreasonable exemption clauses may be void

Relevant when reviewing limitation and indemnity clauses across your uploaded matter documents.

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Hong Kong legal research, right inside your draft

Common Laws now works in Microsoft Word. Find authorities, add OSCOLA-style footnotes and cite-check your document without leaving the page you’re writing.

Only what you search for or ask about leaves your document. That’s the text you highlight plus a little surrounding context, or up to about 12,000 characters if you choose to search the whole document. Tables of authorities and unsupported-claim checks run entirely inside Word, and cite-check sends only the citations it finds.

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Settlement review

Turn 2 of 2

Settlement Agreement.pdfWitness Statement.docxClient Instructions.pdf

What risks should I flag across these documents before advising my client?

The settlement agreement's indemnity clause is unusually broad and may not survive reasonableness review under Cap. 71. Compare the payment timeline with the witness statement dates.

Cross-document inconsistencies

Citations link back to the exact passages in each uploaded file, alongside relevant Hong Kong authorities.

Settlement Agreement.pdf ¶12Control of Exemption Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 71) s.3R. v. LAM CHIU VA (HCMA001007/1995)

Draft a short memo summarising the key risks across all three files.

Pinned

Control of Exemption Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 71) s.3

Stays visible across follow-up questions in this thread.

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