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The District Court was established in 1953 with the enactment of the District Court Ordinance. [1] It is located in the Wanchai Law Courts, Wanchai Tower , 12 Harbour Road. In the past there were six district courts , namely Victoria , Kowloon , Fanling , Tsuen Wan , Tuen Mun and Sha Tin , before being amalgamated and moved to the same location ...
During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, it served as the Kowloon headquarters of the Kempeitai. [2] It later served as the Kowloon District Court which was renamed in 1957 the South Kowloon District Court. After the opening of the North Kowloon Magistracy in 1960, some cases were diverted there. The South Kowloon District Court remained in ...
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 ...
As a consequence, for part of the early 1980s, the Supreme Court was moved to the Former French Mission Building, [4] which was then used by the Victoria District Court. In 1985, the building took up service as home to the Legislative Council, when it was known as 'the Legislative Council Building', while the Supreme Court moved to the Supreme ...
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.
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It was so-called "blockade of Hong Kong" by the Hong Kong Government. [2] These stations ceased to operate in 1899 after the lease of the New Territories to Britain. [3] 1872: Tung Wah Hospital established: 1874: Arthur Kennedy: 1874 Hong Kong Typhoon: Founding of the Universal Circulating Herald: 1877: Arthur Kennedy: 1882: John Pope Hennessy ...
A review of the extent to which the courts in Hong Kong could consider the commercial purpose of the parties when interpreting a commercial contract was occasioned by the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal's consideration of the lower courts' rulings in Sinoearn International Ltd v Hyundai-CCECC Joint Venture (A Firm), with a ruling published in ...