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Title The new legal order in Hong Kong / edited by Raymond Wacks
Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 687 pages)
Series HKU Press law series
HKU Press law series.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Law -- China -- Hong Kong
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
LAW -- General.
Law
Rechtssystem
China -- Hong Kong
China
Hongkong
Form Electronic book
Author Wacks, Raymond, editor.
ISBN 9789882202283
9882202284