by | Nov 7, 2019
The origins of the book – Common Law in an Uncommon Courtroom: Judicial Interpreting in Hong Kong – go back 25 years to 1994, when Dr Eva Ng joined Hong Kong Judiciary as a Court Interpreter II. She left that job 14 months later, but the uniqueness of the situation...
by | Nov 7, 2019
In the 1980s, when Hong Kong’s future was being negotiated by China and Britain, Deng Xiaoping coined the phrase ‘one country, two systems’ to describe the solution of allowing Hong Kong’s legal and economic system to remain unchanged for 50 years. This governing...
by | Nov 7, 2019
In September 2018 the world’s largest money laundering scandal was revealed and it was shockingly centred on regulated banks in Europe. Some US$230 billion – yes, billion – was laundered from Russia, Azerbaijan and other dubious sources through Estonia, using Danish...
by | Nov 7, 2019
Hong Kong’s illegal wildlife trade is increasing in volume, underestimated in value and contributing significantly to the global extinction crisis. These are the conclusions of a recent study co-authored by Hong Kong Wildlife Trade Working Group (HKWTWG) and Ms Amanda...
by | Nov 7, 2019
American conceptual artist Lowell Darling is practised in the art of bending (but not breaking) rules to the point of absurdity. Faced with onerous demands by US tax authorities to prove he was a ‘for-profit’ artist and not a hobbyist, in order to claim some US$800 in...
