This chapter examines how Hong Kong contract law has largely followed orthodox English contract law principles in relation to rights of termination for breach or non-performance. Where there is a variance between the two, Hong Kong law is almost always harsher, favouring commercial certainty...

In Quoine Pte Ltd v B2C2 Ltd [2020] SGCA(I) 2, the Singapore Court of Appeal had the opportunity to set out how the traditional contract law doctrine of unilateral mistake would apply to disputes in which the contracting process has been automated, in the context of a number of cryptocurrency...