The sources of Hong Kong law / Peter Wesley-Smith.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface; Table of cases; Table of legislation; Part One: The Common Law; 1. Understanding the common law; 2. Theories of adjudication; 3. The theory of stare decisis; 4. The practice of horizontal stare decisis; 5. Vertical stare decisis within Hong Kong; Part Two: The Reception of English Law; 6. Statutory provisions importing English law; 7. Statute law; 8. The effect of pre-1843 Acts of Parliament; 9. Common law and equity; 10. Practice and procedure; 11. Vertical stare decisis; Part Three: Chinese Law and Custom; 12. Chinese law and custom as a source of law.

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Hong Kong has a curious mixture of laws old and new, written and unwritten, home-grown and imported. Made by various bodies in various ways with various results, these laws constitute a reasonably coherent body of rules, principles, practices, procedures, assumptions, and attitudes. How are these differing sources of law best described and explained? How are they mobilized and employed? How do they achieve the coherence they seem to display, and can that coherence be maintained? Such are the questions which this book seeks to illuminate. They are vital questions for a legal system undergoing significant change at a crucial time in the political development of Hong Kong.

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