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Tales from No. 9 Ice House Street / Patrick Yu Shuk-siu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yu, Patrick Shuk-siu.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yu, Patrick Shuk-siu.
- Lawyers--China--Hong Kong--Biography.
- Lawyers.
- Law--China--Hong Kong--Cases.
- Law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (177 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Patrick Yu takes up his story as he returns to Hong Kong to become the first Chinese Crown Counsel.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Reminiscences of a crown counsel
- The start of a new life
- Room 404, No. 9 Ice House Street
- More selections from album of memories
- Room 711B: the last episode
- The case of Law Or and the Misreported Abortion Triel
- The case of the American gangster who bribed the jury to convict him
- The case of the Queen's Counsel who was a gentleman
- the case of the murder trial without Corpus Delecti (meaning dead body)
- The case of the eye-blinking barrister
- The case of the young man who impersonated a police officer
- The case of the twelve million cheques
- The case of the ruptured kidney
- The case of the defendant with high cheekbones
- The case of the foreign litigant who wisely refrained from bribing the trial judge
- The case of the solicitor who was convicted of an offence not known to law
- The case of the court interpreter who loved to show off his knowledge of English
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-70716-7
- 9786612707162
- 988-220-286-1
- OCLC:
- 369012628
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