our legal system necessarily has much in common with
that of England.")
2.
Signed 28 September 1984 (1985)
United Kingdom Treaty
See R Wacks, Civil
3.
4.
Series No 26, Cmnd 9543.
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Ibid, para 3(12). See Wacks, 13.
China,
the Consultative Committee for the Basic Law of
the Hong Hong Special Administrative Region of the
Peoples' Republic of China, April 1990 (Basic Law),
Article 2.
5.
Ibid, Art 4.
6.
Ibid, Art 6.
7.
Ibid, Art 9.
8.
Ibid, Art 11.
9.
Ibid, Art 5.
10.
Ibid, Art 28.
11.
Ibid, Art 27.
12.
Ibid, Art 28.
13.
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14.
Ibid, Art 29.
15.
Ibid, Art 30.
16.
Ibid, Art 31.
17.
Ibid, Art 32.
18.
Ibid, Art 34.
19.
Ibid, Art 35.
20.
21.
United Nations Centre for Human Rights, Human Rights:
A Compilation of International Instruments, 1988.
See B FC Hsu and P W Baker, The Spirit of Common Law
in Hong Kong: The Transition to 1997 (1990) 24 UBC
Law Rev 307, 341.
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