Co-organize Seminar: How to Manage the Main Contracts under the Construction Industry Security of Payment Ordinance (Cap. 652)
Date: 18 June 2026
Brief:
The SOPO sets down a unique position in juxtaposition between law and construction contracts. While in principle, law takes over contract but not exactly in this case. The legally prescribed insertion of SOPO into prevalent Main Contracts, namely, the Standard Form of Building Contracts, the New Engineering Contracts, etc., has been carefully crafted to allow fulfillment of both its legislative intent and the parties' agreement in contract in full that is protected under common law. Party holders like Employers and Main Contractors need to know of their inherent rights in law and contract in order to protect their vested interests in contract. Contract Administrators need to know how exactly SOPO and Main Contracts are to be run by them in order not to jeopardise the parties' interests. It is unnecessary and totally avoidable not to suffer any loss of contractual interests held under the principle of "party autonomy" in common law only the parties know their positions and the Contract Administrators knows how to run Main Contracts in the equally crafty manner.
Speaker: Dr Simon Chee
Date: 18 June 2026, Thursday
Time: 7:00 – 8:30
Venue: PolyU West Kowloon Campus, Lecture Theatre N203
Language: English supplemented with Cantonese
Format: In-person
Quota: 40 HKIA members
CPD hours: 1.5
Enrollment Fee: Free of charge
Registration: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/bviXCfNcPR?origin=lprLink