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Bill of Rights organised by the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong 20-22 June 1991. That paper, by the author is titled "Summing Up: Hong Kong - A Cause for Optimism or Pessimism?"
President of the Court of Appeal of New South Wales, Australia. Member of
of the
the Executive Committee of the International Commission of Jurists, Geneva. Personal views.
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This account of the British acquisition of Hong Kong is
conveniently told in W Rodzinski, The Walled
Kingdom
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A History of China from 2000 BC to the
Present, Fontana, 1984, 180ff.
See R Wacks (editor), The Future of the Law in Hong
Kong, Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1989,
Introduction, 1.
The Joint Declaration of the Government of the People's
Republic of China and the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland on the
the Question of Hong
Kong (28 September 1984) is
is found in 23
in 23 ILM (1984)
annex 1. See also The Basic Law
The Basic Law for the Hong Kong
Special Administrative Region made pursuant to Article
31 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of
China and the Bill of Rights Ordinance 1991 (HK).
Far Eastern Economic Review, 9 May 1991 ("Hong
Kong: Law in Disorder"), 13.
This was a view expressed from the floor by
Mr A Lester QC, during discussion of the paper by
Professor T Opsahl, a former member of
of the United
Nations Human Rights Committee. It gained qualified
support from Professor Opsahl.
See Byles J in Cooper v Wandsworth Board of Works
(1863) 14 CB (NS) 180, 184; 143 ER 414, 420. See also
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