Hong Kong Law Journal 1971 - 2024

Vol. 53, Part 1 of 2023

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Analysis
A Practitioner’s Commentary on a Decade of Buyer’s Stamp Duty in Hong Kong Stefano Mariani1
No Damage Done: Service Out and the Tort Gateway in the Court of Final Appeal”Michael Chung21
Equality, Dignity and Same-sex Marriage: Reflections on Developments in Hong Kong Kelley Loper37
Comparative Law and Freedom to Marry in Hong Kong Holning Lau and Xavier Dyer51
Seditious Publication: The Village of the Sheep Casee Johannes Chan65
Lectures
When Individual Rights Meet Public Interests Kemal Bokhary85
A Civil Practitioner Enters the World of Criminal Law Geoffrey Ma97
Festschrift in Honour of Johannes Chan
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”: Johannes Chan and the Shaping of Hong Kong’s Liberal Common Law Legal System Cora Chan109
Taking Hong Kong’s Constitutional Journey to the World: Some Reflections on the Works of Johannes Chan Jacques deLisle121
Johannes Chan’s Theory of the Rule of Law Eric C Ip149
Making Human Rights “Fundamental”: Johannes Chan and the Entrenchment of the Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance Michael Ng and Albert HY Chen167
In Celebration of Professor Johannes Chan, S.C. (Hon.): Notes on The Value of Comparative Human Rights Law in Hong Kong Geoffrey Yeung185
Legalism and Strategic Judicial Decision-Making in Hong Kong Po Jen Yap and Julius Yam207
A Role Model and Friend: Personal Reflections on a Two-decade-long Connection with Professor Johannes ChanProfessor Dame Hazel Genn DBE, KC (Hon)225
Articles
Identity Disclosure of Leniency Recipients in Hong Kong Sinchit Lai and Zhaoda Kui233
Legal Transplants: A Possibility or a Fallacy? Asif Salahuddin265
Is Investor–State Arbitration Appropriate as a Tool for Regulating Unilateral Sanctions? A Comprehensive Study of Sanctions-Related ISDS Practices Xiaoyu Fan and Tong Qi287
Rigid Literalism as the New Normal? Hong Kong Courts’ Interpretive Approaches to the National Security Law and Sedition Legislation Feiyang Dai327
The Constitutional Impact of the National Security Law Interpretation: A Preliminary Analysis Bing Ling355
China Law
The Regulation of Personal Data Accuracy in China’s Public Social Credit System Hannah Klöber375
The Criminalisation of Cryptocurrency Operation in China: Limits of Private Money Reconsidered Li Shuping403
The Extraterritorial Jurisdiction of China’s New Securities Law: An Overview and Evaluation Youfang Jin and Linglin Fu429


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Vol. 53, Part 2 of 2023

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Analysis
The Ouster Clause and the Amendment to the Legal Practitioners Ordinance: an Analysis Ju Liu451
Lecture
The Legal Constitution Peter Cane469
Focus: “Democracy and Dysfunction: Towards a Responsive Theory of Judicial Review”
Responsive Judicial Review in Asia Rosalind Dixon489
Responsive Judicial Review without Democracy: The Hong Kong Experience Johannes Chan507
Responsive Judicial Review in Taiwan Chien-Chih Lin539
Entrenching Democracy Through Constitutional Adjudication: The Responsive Judicial Review of the Constitutional Court of Korea Jonghyun Park563
The Rise and Decline of Responsive Judicial Review in Indonesia Stefanus Hendrianto589
Sri Lanka’s Public Trust Doctrine as Responsive Judicial Review? Dinesha Samararatne611
Articles
Constitutional Review of Colonial Macau: a Historical Study  Luis WK Wong643
Mainstreaming Development Dimension into Multilateral Investment Court’s Design and Interpretative Philosophy: a Roadmap for Action Collins C Ajibo683
First Aid Administrative Law: Patching the Conditional Discharge Regime Edward Lui701
RCEP Investment Rules and a Paradigm Shift in the International Investment Regime Sheng Zhang and Jie Li733
Is a Belt-and-Road Investment Court Feasible? an Evaluation of Possible Choices Wei Yin and Yawen Zheng757
Review Article
Treaty for a Lost City: the Sino-British Joint Declaration  Richard Cullen797
China Law
Bureaucratic-professional Conflicts in the Chinese Bureaucratised Courts Liu Xuanxi815
Navigating the Identity Thicket in China from a Comparative Lens: Conflicting Control Rights over a Person’s Name Yang Chen843
China’s Hainan Free Trade Port: Shipping Laws and Policy Reform  Zhu Li877
Book reviews
Robert Stevens, The Laws of Restitution WM Gummow899
Malcolm Merry, Grounded in Kai Tak – Chinese Aircraft Impounded in Hong Kong, 1949–1952 Michael Ng903


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Vol. 53, Part 3 of 2023

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Analysis
Foreign Law in Common Law Courts of Appeal: From Hong Kong to Jersey and Cayman Islands The Hon William Gummow AC 909
Articles
The Legal Response to Drugs and Social Supply: The Case of Hong Kong 915 Karen A Joe-Laidler, Kate Lowe, Simon NM Young and Tin H Cheung915
A Tribute to the Late Sir Tl Yang (1929–2023)
Trailblazing the Colonial Judiciary: A Tribute to Hong Kong’s First Chinese Chief Justice Chen Li943
China Law
An Examination of the Power of the Central People’s Government to Issue Directives to the Chief Executive under the Hong Kong Basic Law Fan Xiang969
At the Crossroads? Assessing SEP Injunctive Relief under Patent Law and Competition Law in China Bo Yuan and Peicheng Wu997
OECD/G20 Pillar Two and Tax Laws of China: How to Harmonise? Xiaojing Cui and Yuan Liu1029
Empirical Study of the Role of the Chinese Guiding Case System in Chinese Law Dong Yan and Jeffery E Thomas1059
Focus: The Empirical Turn in Chinese Legal Studies
Introduction Benjamin M Chen1083
Empirical Legal Studies Made in China: An Empirical Study on Legal Doctoral Dissertations Jinhua Cheng1087
Quantitative Legal Research Based on China’s Adjudication Documents: The End of the Golden Era? Ke Li and Yang Feng1121
Problems and Misunderstandings in Chinese Empirical Legal Research: The Example of Papers Involving Judgment Documents Yu Zeyang an dYu Mengyao1143
Monopoly and Fragmentation: Data Collection in Chinese Empirical Legal Study Qin Ma1173
The Application and Limitations of Survey Methods in the Quantitative Assessment of Justice in China Hongqi Wu and Lin Haibin1197
Trade-off Between “Big Data” and “Small Data”: a Simulation Study on The Application of Random Sampling in Chinese Empirical Legal Studies Yiwei Xia1217
Data Still Needs Theory: Collider Bias in Empirical Legal Research Benjamin M Chen and Xiaohan Yin1243
How to Do Empirical Legal Studies without Numbers? Sida Liu and Sitao Li1261
Book Review
Haochen Sun, Technology and the Public Interest Tap Huang1277