Hong Kong Law Journal 1971 - 2024

Vol. 16 of 1986

INDEX OF CONTENTS

EDITORIALS
Banking Bill 1986: commissioner's discretions 193
Limitation, of professional liability 325
Overseas barristers and the independence of the bar 1
So-called 'triad experts' 3
Trial of Complex Commercial Crimes Bill 189
ARTICLES
Accident compensation reforms: England, Hong Kong and Malaysia - Peter Rhodes 8
Alibi notice as part of a prosecution case - Jill Spruce 213
Challenging orders for private examination under the Companies Ordinance - P M Wood 327
Economic loss: the 'Aliakmon' and after - Jill Spruce and Christopher Smith 58
Employees' compensation: 'arising out of and in the course of employment' - Robyn Martin 71
Family law and family companies in Hong Kong - Elizabeth Phillips 196
Hire purchase deficiency claims - Bob Allcock 227
Hong Kong immigration control: the law and the bureaucratic maze - W S Clarke 342
The political status and government institutions of Macao - Rui Afonso and Francisco Gongalves Pereira 28
NOTES AND COMMENTS
Adoption of Hong Kong Minors, by British Citizens - Elizabeth Phillips 390
Double Jeopardy: Overlapping Jurisdiction, and the Attorney General of Hong Kong - W S Clarke 90
Hong Kong's Dependencies - Peter Wesley-Smith 87
Mental Health Legislation in Hong Kong: Cause for Concern - Veronica Pearson 410
No-Fault Accident Compensation, Schemes in Hong Kong - Peter Rhodes 400
Prohibition of Tax-Free Payments to Directors - Peter Willoughby 266
Prosecuting the Telephone Boolonaker - G P Muttrie 369
Recent Decisions on Precedent in Hong Kong - Peter Wesley-Smith 268
Statutory Continuation of Tenancies and Notice to Quit - Malcolm Merry 382
The Definition of 'Effective Rate of Interest' - Louis K W Ying 95
NOTES OF CASES
Banking
- compliance with letter of credit
293
Barristers
- admission of English counsel
420
Constitutional Law
- judicial review of prerogative powers
146
Criminal Law
- attempting a strict liability offence
- right to silence in loitering cases
130
138
Criminal Procedure
- disparity of sentences
425
Divorce
- appointment of Crown Solicitor as guardian ad litem
- maintenance pending suit
- method of assessing lump sum
- whether decree absolute void or voidable
280
427
143
275
Employees' Compensation
- cancellation of approved agreement
106
Evidence
- proving forged Chinese calligraphy
112
Family Law
- custody of children on, divorce
430
Landlord and Tenant
- covenant to repay security deposit
127
Legal Aid
- recovery of costs from successful litigant
434
Partnership
- whether joint venture a partnership
289
Practice and Procedure
- need to plead interest
121
Revenue
- deducibility of interest
- source of trading profits
- taxation of interest from offshore loans
439
117
284
Succession
- whether, adopted son entitled to grant
136
PERSONAL INJURIES
A Digest of Awards in Hong Kong 147, 299, 443
Consumer price indices 155
Interest rates 155
Multiplier tables 156, 312, 453
SENTENCES
A Digest of Decisions in Hong Kong 158, 314, 455
REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
Dinstein, Models of Autonomy 166
Keane, The Modern Law of Evidence 321
Lau and Kuan, The 1985 District Board Elections in Hong Kong: The Limits of Political Mobilisation in a Dependent Polity 178
Lau and Kuan, Hong Kong after the Sino-British Agreement: Limits to Institutional Change in a Dependent Polity 322
Law Reports of the Commonwealth 1985, Constitutional and Administrative Law Reports 174
Wallace, Company Law in Hong Kong 463
Books Received 465


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