Vol. 24 (1994) Part 1
CONTENTS
COMMENTS | |
The 'new' Hong Kong Law Journal | 1 |
Approaching the Bench: the future of the judiciary | 1 |
Originalism and Akers-Jones | 5 |
The Green Paper on equal opportunities for women and men: an exercise in consultation or evasion? | 8 |
Constitutional misunderstandings | 17 |
ANALYSIS | |
Bailment on terms and the carriage of goods by sea: the 'Mahkutai' - Shane Nossal | 19 |
Time and the courts - James Allen | 28 |
Strict liability in the Hong Kong courts - Peter Wesley-Smith | 40 |
ARTICLES | |
Copyright protection for computer software: does Hong Kong meet international standards? - K H Pun | 56 |
Duties of mortgagees and receivers: common law or equity? - R J Wickins and C A Ong | 89 |
Employment and human rights in Hong Kong: some recent developments - Ng Sek-hong | 108 |
CHINESE LAW | |
Recent enactments | 139 |
PERSONAL INJURIES | |
Recent awards | 142 |
Interest rates | 144 |
Consumer price indices | 145 |
Multipliers (loss of future earnings) | 146 |
SENTENCES | |
Recent decisions | 147 |
REVIEWS | |
Hong Kong Public Law Reports, Vol 1 ed Byrnes, Chan, & Edwards | 152 |
Introduction to the Legal System of the PRC by Albert Chen | 154 |
Books Received | 156 |
Vol. 24 (1994) Part 2
CONTENTS
COMMENTS | |
Tolerating detention - James Rice | 157 |
Legal education in Hong Kong: a critical examination - Carlos Wing-hung Lo | 161 |
The Wilkinson case - Nihal Jayawickrama | 166 |
ANALYSIS | |
Some reflections on Hong Kong's autonomy - Albert H Y Chen | 173 |
The Bills of Lading and Analagous Shipping Documents Ordinance - Shane Nossal | 181 |
Reasonable foreseeability, pollution, and the rule in Rylands v Fletcher - Richard Glofcheski | 189 |
Hong Kong, 1997, and the international movement of antiquities - J David Murphy | 195 |
ARTICLES | |
The basic norm and the Basic Law - J W Harris | 207 |
Repairing the dome of heaven: a re-examination of the classical roots of women's legal status in China - L X Woo | 231 |
The legal and cultural context of children's rights in Hong Kong - B Rwezaura | 276 |
PERSONAL INJURIES | |
Recent awards | 291 |
Multipliers (loss of future earnings) | 294 |
SENTENCES | |
Recent decisions | 295 |
REVIEWS | |
Hong Kong, China and 1997: Essays in Legal Theory ed Raymond Wacks | 300 |
The Source of Income: Tax Law and Practice in Hong Kong by Jefferson VanderWolk | 305 |
Hong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice 1993-4 rev by David Smith | 311 |
Vol. 24 (1994) Part 3
CONTENTS
COMMENTS | |
Human rights: confronting Bangkok and Beijing - Raymond Wacks | 313 |
The purpose of legal education - Stephen Nathanson | 315 |
The old age pension scheme: a tax by any other name ... - Charles D Booth | 319 |
ANALYSIS | |
The international legal personality of Macau - Roda Mushkat | 328 |
Arising out of ... the employment: employees' compensation and United Ford Development Limited - Richard Glofcheski | 341 |
Summary judgment: law and procedure in transition - Camille Cameron | 347 |
The parentage of children born as a result of natural and assisted reproduction - Athena Liu | 356 |
ARTICLES | |
The end of human rights? - Raymond Wacks | 372 |
Do human rights apply to China? A normative analysis of cultural difference - Chad Hansen | 397 |
CHINESE LAW | |
No longer a 'tool of the state plan'? - an analysis of the 1993 amendments to China's Economic Contract Law - Carole J Petersen | 416 |
PERSONAL INJURIES | |
Recent awards | 436 |
Multipliers (loss of future earnings) | 439 |
SENTENCES | |
Recent decisions | 440 |
REVIEWS | |
Between Freedom and Subsistence: China and Human Rights by Ann Kent | 445 |
Hong Kong Conveyancing. Law and Practice, Volume 1 by Judith Sihombing and Michael Wilkinson | 450 |
Books received | 455 |
Books on Hong Kong law published in 1994 | 455 |
INDEX |