Vol. 17 of 1987
INDEX OF CONTENTS
| EDITORIALS | |
| Hong Kong and the Commonwealth Law Conference | 1 |
| The Robinson Report: What Future the District Court? | 2 |
| A Disappointing Draft of Hong Kong's Bill of Rights | 133 |
| The Public Order (Amendment) Ordinance: Alarming the Public | 136 |
| The Need for Direct Elections to the Hong Kong Legislature | 139 |
| Film Censorship and Official Secrets | 285 |
| Does Hong Kong Really Need So Many More Lawyers? | 286 |
| ARTICLES | |
| Duplicity: the rule and its consequences - W S Clarke and Peter Morrow | 4 |
| Hong Kong code of takeovers and mergers: toothless watchdog or handmaiden of equality - Alan Au | 24 |
| Liability of officials under the Tang Code - Geoffrey MacCormack | 142 |
| Licensing loopholes for Hong Kong's travel agents: a guided tour of regulatory reforms - Gary N Heilbronn | 163 |
| The Control of Obscene and Indecent Articles Ordinance 1987 - Johannes Chan | 288 |
| The right to make a closing speech in criminal cases - Michael Wilkinson | 307 |
| Loitering in Hong Kong - Peter Morrow | 329 |
| NOTES AND COMMENTS | |
| The Transaction Levy Programme: A Possible Solution To the Solicitors' Professional Indemnity Crisis - S Nathanson | 62 |
| The Governor, The Secretary of State and the Prerogative of Mercy - N J Miners | 77 |
| The Chinese Language Legislation Scheme and the Problem of Judicial Gloss - Yuen Chi-wing | 89 |
| Are Large Law Firms Legal? - Michael A Olesniclcy | 188 |
| The Sentencing of Juveniles in Hong Kong - I T Heath | 193 |
| Damage to Cargo - The Aliakmon - Julianne P Doe | 199 |
| Subject to Contract - Does it Mean What to Says? - Judith Sihombing | 343 |
| Some Reflections on the 'Film Censorship Affair' - Albert H Y Chen | 352 |
| NOTES OF CASES | |
| Revenue - salaries tax |
100 |
| Criminal Procedure - particulars |
104 |
| Criminal law - theft |
104 |
| Evidence - admissibility of hearsay in civil proceedings |
107 |
| Practice and Procedure - costs on adjournment |
107 |
| Civil Liberties - freedom of speech |
113 |
| Criniinal Law - objectionable publications |
113 |
| Criminal Procedure - closing speech in magistrate's court |
114 |
| Judicial Precedent - Supreme Court |
114 |
| Divorce - financial provision |
213 |
| Tort - duty of care - intervening acts - accident compensation |
215 |
| Civil Liberties - powers of the state |
220 |
| Landlord and Tenant - distress for rent |
224 |
| Companies - mortgages - ultra vires |
230 |
| Family - Probate - Chinese customary marriage |
237 |
| Practice and Procedure - powers of the Court of Appeal |
243 |
| Constitutional law - prerogative - Sino-British Joint Declaration - basic law drafting process |
247 |
| Land Law - Crown leases - Sino-British Joint Declaration |
247 |
| Revenue - tax fraud |
360 |
| Equity - Tort - breach of confidence |
362 |
| Landlord and Tenant - whether covenant runs with land |
365 |
| Copyright - registered designs - derivative drawings |
369 |
| Practice and Procedure - service - foreign companies |
372 |
| Civil Liberties - powers of the state |
377 |
| PERSONAL INJURIES | |
| A Digest of Awards in Hong Kong | 116, 251, 380 |
| Interest rates and Consumer price indices | 121 |
| Multiplier tables | 123, 257, 383 |
| SENTENCES | |
| A Digest of Decisions in Hong Kong | 124, 258, 384 |
| REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS | |
| Pamela Atwefl, British Mandarins and Chinese Reformers: The British Administration of Weihaiwei (1898-1930) and the Territory's Return to Chinese Rule | 131 |
| Geoffrey Lewis, LordAtkin | 265 |
| MacKenzie and Phillips, A Practical Approach to Land Law | 269 |
| P G Willoughby, Hong Kong Revenue Law, Vols 2 and 3 | 271 |
| David .Flux, Hong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice 1986-87 | 274 |
| Buzzard et al Medicine and Surgery for Lawyers | 276 |
| Mayson and French, A Practical Approach to Company Law | 277 |
| Malcolm Merry, Hong Kong Tenancy Law: An Introduction to the Law of Landlord and Tenant | 279 |
| Stirling and Carpenter, Copyright Law in the UK | 280 |
| Gordon N Cruden, Land Compensation and Valuation in Hong Kong | 389 |
| Albert H Y Chen and Ng Sek Hong, The Workers' Compensation System in Hong Kong: Retrospect and Prospect | 390 |
| Books Received | 283 |