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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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