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Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal
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ISBN: 9780511894763 9781107011212 9781461955023 1461955025 0511894767 9781107275096 1107275091 9781107273863 1107273862 9781107278356 110727835X 1107011213 1107010780 9781107010789 110727236X 1139890549 1107271770 1107277124 9781139890540 9781107271777 9781107277120 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge [UK]

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In the years since it was established on 1 July 1997, Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal has developed a distinctive body of new law and doctrine with the help of eminent foreign common law judges. Under the leadership of Chief Justice Andrew Li, it has also remained independent under Chinese sovereignty and become a model for other Asian final courts working to maintain the rule of law, judicial independence and professionalism in challenging political environments. In this book, leading practitioners, jurists and academics examine the Court's history, operation and jurisprudence, and provide a comparative analysis with European courts and China's other autonomous final court in Macau. It also makes use of extensive empirical data compiled from the jurisprudence to illuminate the Court's decision-making processes and identify the relative impacts of the foreign and local judges.


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Electing Hong Kong's chief executive
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ISBN: 9882206905 1283017040 9786613017048 9888053450 9789888053452 9789888028399 9888028391 Year: 2010 Publisher: Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press

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This book is a critical study of the system used to elect Hong Kong's most powerful political leader. Following a historical, empirical and legal examination of the system, the book provides constructive ideas on how the existing system can be developed into one based on universal suffrage and consistent with other constitutional principles and values.

National security and fundamental freedoms
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ISBN: 128270365X 9786612703652 9882202276 9789882202276 9622097324 9789622097322 9781282703650 6612703652 Year: 2005 Publisher: Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press

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This book will be valuable to anyone who has followed or participated in that debate or has an interest in the delicate balance between civil liberties and national security.


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Reforming Law Reform : Perspectives from Hong Kong and Beyond
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ISBN: 9888455672 9789888455676 9789888208241 9888208241 Year: 2014 Publisher: Hong Kong : Baltimore, Md. : Hong Kong University Press, Project MUSE,

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As a special administrative region of China, Hong Kong has its own legal system rooted in the common law. Reforms to this system take into account Hong Kong's unique conditions as an international city and draw widely on practices around the world. Since 1980, recommendations from a Law Reform Commission, chaired by the Secretary for Justice, have resulted in comprehensive revisions in key areas of law, ranging from commercial arbitration and interception of communications to divorce and copyright. Recently, however, the government has been slow to act on the Commission's recommendations. Questions have also arisen about whether the Commission -- under-resourced, part-time and government-led -- can really meet the needs of an increasingly sophisticated society. Is law reform itself also in need of reform? This collection of essays by distinguished experts from around the world seeks answers to the question. The book explores the varied experience of law reform in Hong Kong and other common law jurisdictions and makes recommendations for strengthening the process of law reform both in Hong Kong and elsewhere.

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Law reform --- Legal reform

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