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02 August 2024 / Dr Ping-fat Sze
Issue: 8082 / Categories: Features , Profession , International , International justice
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The rule of law, Hong Kong & reality

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It’s time to refocus attention on the administration of criminal justice in this former British colony. Dr Ping-fat Sze explains why
  • Comments on shortcomings in the prosecutorial system in Hong Kong, including the Department of Justice’s lack of oversight of prosecutions by police and public authorities.

The resignation of three visiting judges from the final appeal court of Hong Kong, shortly after the organisers of the 2020 pro-democracy primaries were convicted by the first instance court on 30 May 2024, have sent shock waves through the common law world.

One of the quitting judges, Lord Sumption, raised his concerns in the Financial Times (‘The rule of law in Hong Kong is in grave danger’, 10 June 2024) only to be met with condemnation in the strongest possible terms by the Foreign Ministry in Beijing, and in turn, by the chief executive, the chief justice, the chief secretary, the justice secretary, the deputy justice secretary and the security chief of Hong Kong in the following

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The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

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Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
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Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
NLJ this week: Prenups meet a jurisdictional brick wall
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
NLJ this week: Has Rylands v Fletcher come back from the dead?
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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