Hong Kong's Bill of Rights: Two Years Before 1997

Abstract

Since 1992 the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong has held an annual Seminar to review developments under the Bill of Rights Ordinance and the impact it has had on the legal system since its enactment in June 1991. The seminar on 24 June 1995 is the latest in the series. This is also the first time the Seminar is co-organized by the newly established Centre for Comparative and public Law. This Seminar has not only been a review of developments under the Bill of Rights, but also it has been a preview – a projection into the likely areas of development in the final two years leading up to 1997. The Seminar looked at topics such as the comparatively of the Bill of Rights with the new constitution – the Basic Law – which will come into effect on 1 July 1997.