Responses from The Professional Commons on the Legislative Council (Amendment) Bill 2012

Latest News, Research & Paper, What's New | March 22nd, 2012 |

Responses from The Professional Commons on the Legislative Council (Amendment) Bill 2012

The Professional Commons is responding to the Government’s proposal on the “Consultation Report on Arrangements for Filling Up Vacancies in the Legislative Council” (hereafter the “Consultation Report”), followed by the draft amendment bill of Legislative Council (Amendm...

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Study on Brownfields in New Territories and Strategies for Land Development

Advocacy & Campaigns, Latest News, Media Exposure, Press Materials, Research & Paper, What's New, Press Release | March 8th, 2012 |

English version coming soon.

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Response from The Professional Commons on the Second Draft of the Code of Practice for Online Service Providers (OSPs)

Latest News, Research & Paper, What's New | March 2nd, 2012 |

The Professional Commons takes notice of the Government’s second draft of the Code of Practice for Online Service Providers (OSPs). Concerning the key amendments made in this second draft, our responses are as follows: (a) instead of setting a specific timeframe within which OSPs must take action to limit and stop a particular infringement, the revised draft Code requires OSPs to ...

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PC Submission on Competition Bill

Latest News, Research & Paper, What's New | February 28th, 2012 |

The Professional Commons understand that the Bill Committee on Competition Bill of the Legislative Council would like to seek stakeholders' view on exemption arrangements for statutory bodies. Our comments would therefore be restricted to this aspect of the Bill although we would mention in passing that we would like to see the Bill to be passed and implemented as soon as possible in order to pro...

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Response to the “Legal, Privacy and Security Framework for Electronic Health Record Sharing Public Consultation”

Latest News, Research & Paper, What's New | February 11th, 2012 |

The Professional Commons, a think tank in Hong Kong formed by professionals from different sectors but concerned about public issues and governance, has long been concerned about the provision of quality healthcare for all citizens in Hong Kong, and the development of a sustainable but accessible model of healthcare in Hong Kong.  We believe the development of the Electronic Health Record (eHR) S...

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