Offers an accessible overview of Hong Kong's legal system and guides first-year law students in legal research and methods.
Providing an overview of the Hong Kong legal system and constitution, this monograph is the first concise and comprehensive guide to such topics as the process of legislative law-making in...
The Hong Kong Legal System
All of these critical issues are addressed in this book.
The Hong Kong Basic Law: Hybrid of Common Law and Chinese Law
This book is ideal for those intending to take the pre-PCLL conversion examination, especially those preparing by self-study.
Introduction to Law in the Hong Kong SAR
Lawyers cannot simply turn to the schedule of cap 88 and the appendix to the Laws of Hong Kong when contemplating the application of English law to the territory. Indeed, legal research should now have become more complicated, not less, ...
[H]igher standards in the relevant regards [have been] built into the moral culture of our civilisation.5 Thus, human rights were not part ... Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, translated by J. Weinsheimer and D.G. Marshall (London: ...
This book is a collection of chapters by leading constitutional law experts in Hong Kong who examine the interpretive issues and conflicts which have arisen since 1997.
Barnett I held that the APO contravened the Bill of Rights Ordinance (1991) because it discriminated against non-marital children. In enacting the PCO the legislature, according to Barnett I, intended 'to put an illegitimate ...