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The District Court is the intermediate court system in Hong Kong, having limited criminal and civil jurisdictions. The District Court was established in 1953 with the enactment of the District Court Ordinance. [1] It is located in the Wanchai Law Courts, Wanchai Tower, 12 Harbour Road.
It replaced the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London as the highest appellate court of Hong Kong, The Court comprises five judges — the Chief Justice, three permanent judges and one non-permanent judge from Hong Kong or another common law jurisdiction. There is a panel of eight non-permanent Hong Kong judges and nine non ...
The Court of Appeal of the High Court of Hong Kong (commonly cited as "CA" or "HKCA") is the second most senior court in the Hong Kong legal system. It deals with appeals on all civil and criminal cases from the Court of First Instance and the District Court.
The lawyer representing Chan disputed the legality of the District Court to hear sedition cases, arguing the charge was exempt from a rule stating that "indictable offences" were to be transferred to the District Court on request of the prosecution, and demanded the trial be stood in High Court with jury. [238]
A Hong Kong court found two former news editors guilty on Thursday of publishing seditious content on a shuttered pro-democracy media site, a ruling rights groups said was a further blow to press ...
In Hong Kong, every criminal case begins at a magistrate's court, regardless of its severity and complexity. But, under the spirit of separation of powers, a magistrate , being part of the judicial branch, has no right to actively start a criminal prosecution and must wait for someone to bring up a complaint before him or her.
A permanent magistrate is a full-time magistrate, and is assigned to sit in one of the seven magistrates' courts. The Chief Justice appoints on a temporary basis a number of principal and permanent magistrates to sit as a Master in the High Court [2] or to sit as a Deputy District Judge or Master in the District Court, Family Court or Lands Tribunal.
Duff, Peter; Findlay, Mark; Howarth, Carla; Chan, Tsang-Fai (1992), Juries: a Hong Kong perspective, Hong Kong University Press, ISBN 978-962-209-306-5 Koo, Franklin, Power to the people: Extending the jury to the Hong Kong's District Court. , City University Law Review , retrieved 27 June 2017