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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 High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region [1] is a part of the legal system of Hong Kong. It consists of the Court of Appeal and the Court of First Instance ; it deals with criminal and civil cases which have risen beyond the lower courts.
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.
From 1926 to 1941, a judge of the Hong Kong Supreme Court also sat on the full court of the British Supreme Court for China. [2] The Court of Appeal was established in 1976. [3] Appeals from the Court of Appeal and Full Court and, certain criminal appeals from the High Court, lay to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the United ...
A review of the extent to which the courts in Hong Kong could consider the commercial purpose of the parties when interpreting a commercial contract was occasioned by the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal's consideration of the lower courts' rulings in Sinoearn International Ltd v Hyundai-CCECC Joint Venture (A Firm), with a ruling published in ...
The Cantonese they speak is substantially different from the Hong Kong version considered standard. In China, people in many regions learn Mandarin in school while speaking another dialect at home.
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 .