The Language and Ideology of Constitutions: A Computational Linguistics Analysis
Principal Investigator: David Law
Project Period: 01/07/2017 – 30/06/2020
Funding Source: RGC General Research Fund
Courts and Democracies in Asia
Principal Investigator: Po Jen Yap
Project Period: 01/07/2017 – 30/06/2020
Funding Source: RGC General Research Fund
Constitutionalism in Context
Principal Investigator: David Law
Project Period: 15/03/2017 – 31/12/2018
Funding Source: Global Partnership Seed Fund
Constitutional Dialogue in Common Law Asia
Principal Investigator: Yap Po Jen
Project Period: 01/07/2014 – 30/06/2017
Funding Source: RGC General Research Fund
The First Decade of Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal
Principal Investigator: Simon NM Young
Co-Investigator: Yash Ghai
Research Assistant: Antonio Da Roza
Project Period: January 2007 – December 2009
Funding Source: Research Grants Council CERG 2006/2007
Before 1 July 1997, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (PC) in England served as Hong Kong’s highest court in all legal disputes. After the resumption of sovereignty by China, Hong Kong established a Court of Final Appeal (CFA) to replace the PC in accordance with the provisions of the Basic Law, Hong Kong’s constitution. Since 1997, as provided for in the Basic Law, distinguished judges from England, Australia and New Zealand have routinely joined local judiciary in the CFA’s decision-making processes. The CFA is the most independent final appeal court in China and the only one mandated to maintain and develop the common law. From 1997 to 2005, the CFA delivered close to 300 separate decisions, compared with the 68 decisions handed down by the PC in the eight years prior to the handover. The CFA jurisprudence has been of great social, economic, and political importance to Hong Kong. The proposed research aims to review the first decade of the CFA in a comprehensive and systematic manner. Quantitative data on the operation of the CFA and its decided cases will be collected and compared with similar data in respect of the last decade of appeals to the PC. Comparative analysis will also be done with the Macao Court of Final Appeal since its creation in 1999 and supreme courts from other countries. From the quantitative data, comparative analysis, and a close examination of all the CFA judgments, the goal of the research is to gain original and substantial knowledge of how the CFA has developed the law in Hong Kong since 1997.
No 28/16: Eric Cheung, October 2016
The Dichotomy Between Foresight and Intention in Joint Enterprise Murder: Should Our Top Court Depart from Chan Wing Siu and Sze Kwan Lung? [PDF]
No 22/13: Charles Banner, January 2013
Judicial Appointments in the Senior Courts – A Perspective from the United Kingdom [PDF]
No 20/11: Aung Htoo, October 2011
Seeking Judicial Power: With a Special Focus on Burma’s Judiciary [PDF]
Conference: The Chinese Judge and International and Comparative Law 2-3 Nov 2007 (Details)
Presentation by Jean-Yves de Cara, Professor, Paris Descartes University, Head of the Department of Law and Political Sciences [PDF]
Presentation by Zhou Xiang, Judge, Supreme People’s Court of People’s Republic of China [PDF Chinese]
Presentation by Wu Zhaoxiang, Judge, Supreme People’s Court of People’s Republic of China [PDF Chinese]
Presentation by Xi Xiangyang, Judge, Supreme People’s Court of People’s Republic of China [PDF Chinese]
Presentation by Zhao Xiuwen, Professor, Renmin University School of Law, China [PDF Chinese] [PDF English]
Presentation by Nagangom Junior Luwang, Partner, Corporate Law Group New Delhi [PDF]