A seventh child and the law / Patrick Yu Shuk-siu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yu, Patrick Shuk-siu.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lawyers--China--Hong Kong--Biography.

Lawyers.

Yu, Patrick Shuk-siu.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

Aberdeen, Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2000 (2004 printing)

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book talks about the description of the unique circumstances under which the author, as a matriculation student, was awarded a government scholarship to enter the University of Hong Kong in 1938, and consists of an accurate separate account of eight actual court cases handled by the author as Defence Counsel.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Part One; Introduction; 1. Scholarship to England; 2.A Seventh Child; 3.Wah yan College and the Irish Jesuits; 4.The fairy Tale of My Matriculation; 5.An Apology and Explanation; 6.Mystery Unravelled; 7.A Vintage year; 8. The University of Hong Kong; 9.The Fall of Kong Kong: Before and After; 10.The War years (Part One); 11.The War years (Part Two); 12.The War years (Part Three): Drama in Huizhou; 13.A Very Merry Christmas; 14.Merton College Oxford; 15.Unique 1947 friendshipTies; 16.Changes in the Wind; 17.A Crucial Decision; 18.Wrangling with Officialdom

19.End of Oxford Sojourn20.Reading Law at Last; 21.Discipline Rewarded; 22. Leisurely year of Pupillag; 23.Malayan Undertaking Contemplated; 24.Year of Mixed fortune in Malaya; 25.First Chinese Crown Counsel; 26. No.9 Ice House Street Also Known as Holland House; 27.My family and the Bar; 28.The Institution of Silk; 29.Looking Ahead; Part Two; Introduction; 1.The Case of the Suicide Pact; 2.The Case of the Midnight Court; 3.The Case of the Murder Trial without the Corpus Delicti; 4.The Case in Which the Crown Failed to Qrove That gold Was gold

5.The Case of the Traffic Toliceman and the Pak-pai Taxi Driver6.The Case of the Ruptured Kidney; 7.The Case of the American Who Was in Two Places at the Same Time; 8.The Case of the Hunter Who Became the Hunted; Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-282-70399-4

9786612703997

988-220-272-1

OCLC:

652681898