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The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government shall maintain the rights and freedoms as provided for by the laws previously in force in Hong Kong, including freedom of the person, of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, to form and join trade unions, of correspondence, of travel, of movement, of strike, of demonstration ...
The High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region [1] is a part of the legal system of Hong Kong. It consists of the Court of Appeal and the Court of First Instance ; it deals with criminal and civil cases which have risen beyond the lower courts.
A permanent magistrate is a full-time magistrate, and is assigned to sit in one of the seven magistrates' courts. The Chief Justice appoints on a temporary basis a number of principal and permanent magistrates to sit as a Master in the High Court [2] or to sit as a Deputy District Judge or Master in the District Court, Family Court or Lands Tribunal.
The last batch of 45 Hong Kong activists entered their final pleas on Tuesday for light sentences in a landmark national security trial over charges that they had formed a "conspiracy to subvert ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) -A senior British judge on Monday heard a protest-related case in Hong Kong involving seven high profile democrats, adding to the debate over whether foreign judges should ...
It replaced the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London as the highest appellate court of Hong Kong, The Court comprises five judges — the Chief Justice, three permanent judges and one non-permanent judge from Hong Kong or another common law jurisdiction. There is a panel of eight non-permanent Hong Kong judges and nine non ...
By James Pomfret. HONG KONG (Reuters) -Two senior British judges resigned from Hong Kong's top appeals court on Thursday, as international concerns mounted over the rule of law in the city ...
2. Assertaining the human rights conditions in Hong Kong HKHRM undertakes research on a variety of important topics including immigration law, constitutional matters, freedoms of association, assembly and expression, the conduct of the police, and the treatment of prisoners. 3. Telling the world about human rights in Hong Kong