The new legal order in Hong Kong / edited by Raymond Wacks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wacks, Raymond.

Series:

HKU Press Law Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--China--Hong Kong.

Law.

Law--China.

Hong Kong (China)--History--Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997.

Hong Kong (China).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (710 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 21 essays in this important new collection consider these, and many other, questions. The first part examines several problems that lie at the heart of the Basic Law's promise of legal continuity. Hong Kong's economic order and its legal buttresses are analysed in Part 2, while the essays in Part 3 trace the shifts in social values as reflected both in Chinese and Hong Kong law.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Contributors; Table of Cases; Introduction; Part 1 - The Changing Legal and Constitutional Order; 1.The Content of the Common Law in Hong Kong; 2.The Development of Constitutionalism in Hong Kong; 3.The Form and Substance of Legal Interaction Between Hong Kong and Mainland China:Towards Hong Kong's New Legal Sovereignty; 4.Inter-Jurisdictional Co-operation in Criminal Matters: Extradition, Mutual Legal Assistance, Prisoner Transfer to and from the HKSAR; 5.The Central-HKSAR Legislative Relationship: A Constitutional Assessment

6. Enforcement of Arbitral Awards Between Mainland China and Hong Kong: Before and After Reunification7.The Status of Customary International Law in the Municipal Law of the HKSAR; Part 2 - The New Economic Order; 8.Stock Market Crises and Insider Dealing in Hong Kong: The Need for Regulatory Reform; 9.Internationalisation of Public Financial Law in Hong Kong; 10.Public Accountability and the Executive: The Role of the Government in the Stock Market; 11.Company Law in Hong Kong:Charting a New Course?; 12.Revenue Law in Hong Kong:The Future

13.Recent Reforms and Developments of Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong Maritime Law14.Hong Kong's Law of Contract:The Last Thirty Years; 15.Employment and Trade Union Law: Ideology and the Politics of Hong Kong Labour Law; Part 3 - Shifting Social Values; 16.Confucian Legal Culture and Its Modern Fate; 17.The Mapping of Narratives in Hong Kong's Post-Colonial Family Disputes; 18.Hong Kong Family Law in the Last Decade of British Rule:Towards a New Identity; 19.Equal Opportunities: A New Field of Law for Hong Kong; 20.International Environmental Law: How Green Is the Future

21.Preserving the System:The Educational DimensionIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-70400-1

9786612704000

988-220-228-4

OCLC:

642690007