Hong Kong

District Court of Hong Kong Judgments

HKLII database containing judgments of the District Court of Hong Kong from 1946 onwards (plus a few earlier cases). The data is provided by the Judiciary of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) of the People's Republic of China. Cases are listed by date and there is a search facility. The Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII) is a joint project to provide free access to the primary legal materials of the Hong Kong SAR. The project partners are the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and AUSTLII, the Australasian Legal Information Institute.

Historical Laws of Hong Kong

Historical laws of Hong Kong, scanned from the original printed editions, provided by University of Hong Kong Libraries. The contents are derived from the revised consolidations of 1890, 1901, 1912, 1923, 1937, 1950 and 1964 (last updated to 1989). The laws are searchable  by chapter or ordinance number, title and edition; individual editions may be browsed by ordinance title. 

Court of Appeal of Hong Kong Judgments

A Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII) database containing judgments of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong from 1993 onwards. Decisions are listed by party name and year, and there is a search facility. HKLII is a joint project of the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and AUSTLII, the Australasian Legal Information Institute, aiming to provide free access to the primary legal materials of Hong Kong SAR.

Hong Kong Legal Information Institute: Legislation

Legislation of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, on the HKLII website (Hong Kong Legal Information Institute). Includes current ordinances and regulations; constitutional instruments; historical laws (revised editions of laws from 1890 onwards); arrangements with the Macao SAR and mainland China; bilateral agreements; and multilateral treaties. The documents are available in Chinese or English, except for the historical laws, which are in English only.

Hong Kong Legal Information Institute

The Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII) is a joint project to provide free access to the primary legal materials of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The project partners are the University of Hong Kong Law and Technology Centre, and AUSTLII, the Australasian Legal Information Institute. Search and browse options offer access to a range of full-text databases: the judgments of the Court of Final Appeal (1997 to date), the judgments of the Court of Appeal (1946 to date), and judgments of the family and district courts, and the Lands Tribunal.

China Patent Agent (H.K.)

Firm of patent and trademark attorneys established in Hong Kong in 1984 as a quasi-government entity to provide legal services for overseas clients. The site provides Chinese patent laws (in English), treaties, case summaries, forms and FAQs. The site can be viewed in English, German, Japanese and Chinese, but the content is not all available in every language.

Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau

Official website of the Hong Kong Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau, the government body with responsibility for overseeing the implementation of Hong Kong's Basic Law and for promoting closer ties and cooperation with mainland China. The site offers guidance, documentation and related links to topical issues such as the Sino-British Joint Declaration, human rights, constitutional developments and the Basic Law. Legislative Council papers are available, along with press releases, speeches and links to UN documents.

Basic Law Drafting History Online

Compilation of information and documents from the drafting history of the Hong Kong's Basic Law (constitution), with a search facility, provided by the Centre for Comparative and Public Law and the University of Hong Kong Libraries. Has the following sections: Drafting Materials, 1985 to 1997; News Coverage (1985 to 1990); the Legco Database (proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council; and Textual History (drafts of each article of the Basic Law). The documents are in Chinese and / or English.

One Country, Two Systems of Legal Research: a brief guide to finding the law of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Online guide to the law and legal materials of Hong Kong written by Sergio Stone who is Foreign, Comparative and International Law (FCIL) Librarian at Stanford Law School's Robert Crown Law Library in California and Roy L. Sturgeon Foreign, Comparative, and International Law/Reference Librarian at Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. The guide was published in 2008 (and updated in 2018) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School at the New York University School of Law.

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