Hong Kong Constitutional Law (LAWS1100)

- Summary of lecture content - Summary of cases - Approaches to free speech in other countries

- Summary of cases (Including how the judgment applies the proportionality test and the margin of discretion) - Lecture Summary - Different concepts of equality - Articles regarding Equality from the relevant laws

Topics includes - Traditional and modern forms of judicial power - judicial power in Hong Kong Post-1997 - Fundamental rights review & general test in constitutional judicial review - key cases (HKSAR v Ng Kung Siu) (Chan Kin Sum v Secretary of Justice) (W v Registrar for Marriages) All cases...

Topics include - The structure of the judiciary - Judicial review - separation of powers - Judicial independence and challenges to judicial independence

Topics include - Concept, element and aims of separation of powers - Separation of powers pre-1997 and post-1997 - Relevant Basic Law articles on the Chief Executive and Legislative Council along with context and commentary from lecture - Executive-legislative checks

Summary of prescribed reading - Chief Executive of HKSAR v President of Legislative Council (2017) Judgment - Co-location arrangement agreement article summary - Approaches to constitutional interpretations

Topics include: - Constitutional status of the basic law - power of interpretation (Basic Law articles and controversies) (PRC Constitutional articles) - Key cases summaries: Ng Ka Ling v Director of Immigration (1999) No. 1 and 2

Topics include - The constitutional system of the PRC (Relevant articles from the PRC Constitution and commentary) - the most relevant PRC constitution articles to Hong Kong - Basic law articles and commentary on how they relate to the relationship between the HKSAR and PRC

Summary of prescribed reading

Simple and straight-forward explanation of the first lecture