PCLL Conversion Notes and Model Exam Answers (PCLL Conversion Past Paper Answers) for Hong Kong Constitutional Law for the PCLL Conversion Examinations.
Johannes Chan & C.L. Lim (eds.), Law of the Hong Kong Constitution (Sweet & Maxwell, 2015)
Danny Gittings, Introduction to the Hong Kong Basic Law (HKU Press, 2013)
Michael Ramsden & Stuart Hargreaves (eds.), Hong Kong Basic Law Handbook (Sweet and Maxwell, 2015)
Janice Brabyn, “Leung Kwok Hung and others through the Hong Kong Courts”, (2006) 36 HKLJ 83.
Georg Brunner, “The Functions of Communist Constitutions: An Analysis of Recent Constitutional Developments”, (1977) 3 Rev. Soc. Law 121-153
Johannes Chan, “The Jurisdiction and Legality of the Provisional Legislative Council”, (1999) 27 HKLJ 374
Johannes Chan, “Some Thoughts on Constitutional Reform in Hong Kong”, 34 (2004) HKLJ 1
Johannes Chan, “Civil Liberties, Rule of Law and Human Rights: The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in its First Four Years” in Lau Siu-kai (ed.) The First Tung Chee-hwa Administration: The First Five Years of the HKSAR (Chinese University Press, 2002)
Chan, Fu & Ghai (ed.) Hong Kong’s Constitutional Debate: Conflict over Interpretation (HKU Press, 2000)
Chan, Johannes and Harris, Lison (eds.), Hong Kong’s Constitutional Debate, 2005 (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Law Journal Limited, 2005)
Chan, J. and Chan, E. “Perceptions of Universal Suffrage and Functional Representation in Hong Kong: A Confused Public?” (2006) Asian Survey 257-274
Albert Chen, “From Colony to Special Administrative Region: Hong Kong’s Constitutional Journey” in Raymond Wacks, The Future of the Law in Hong Kong (Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 76-126.
Albert Chen, “The Concept of Justiciability and the Jurisdiction of the Hong Kong Courts”, (1997) 27 HKLJ 387
Albert H. Chen, “The Concept of ‘One Country Two Systems’ and its Application to Hong Kong” in C. Stephen Hsu (ed.) Understanding China’s Legal System: Essays in Honor of Jerome A. Cohen (New York University Press, 2003)
Albert Chen, “The interpretation of the Basic law – common law and Mainland Chinese perspectives”, (2000) 30 HKLJ 380
Albert Chen, “Hong Kong’s Legal System in the New Constitutional Order” in Jianfu Chen, Yuwen Li and Jan Michiel Otto (eds), Implementation of Law in the Republic of China (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002), pp. 213-245.
Albert H. Y. Chen “The Constitutional Controversy in Hong Kong Spring 2004”, 34 (2004) HKLJ 215
Albert H.Y. Chen, “The Fate of the Constitutional Reform Proposal of October 2005”, (2005) 35 HKLJ 537
Albert Chen, “Constitutional Adjudication in Post-Hong Kong”, (2006) 15 Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal 627-682.
Albert Chen, “One Country Two Systems’ from a Legal Perspective” in Yue-man Yeung (ed)., The First Decade: The Hong Kong SAR in Retrospective and Introspective Perspectives (Chinese University Press, 2007), pp. 161-188.
Albert H.Y. Chen, “A New Era in Hong Kong’s Constitutional History”, (2008) 38 HKLJ 1
Albert H.Y. Chen, “Constitutional Developments in Autumn 2009”, (2009) 39 HKLJ 751
Albert Chen, “The Theory, Constitution and Practice of Autonomy: The Case of Hong Kong” in Jorge Oliveira and Paulo Cardinal (eds), One Country, Two Systems, Three Legal Orders – Perspectives of Evolution (Springer, 2009), pp. 751-767.
Albert Chen, “Focus on the Congo Case: Introduction”, (2011) 41 HKLJ 369.
Cheng Jie, “The Story of a New Policy”, (2009) 15 Hong Kong Journal.
Diamond Larry, “Prospects for Hong Kong’s Democratization”, Hong Kong Journal, January 2008
Yash Ghai, Hong Kong’s New Constitutional Order: The Resumption of Chinese Sovereignty and the Basic Law (HKU Press, 2nd ed. 1999)
Hurst Hannum & Richard B. Lillich, “The Concept of Autonomy in International Law” in Dinstein (ed.), Models of Autonomy (1981)
Ip, Eric C., Law and Justice in Hong Kong, 2nd ed., Sweet & Maxwell, Hong Kong, 2016
Ma Ngok, “Executive-Legislative Relations: Assessing Legislative Influence in an Executive- Dominant System” in Lau Siu-Kai (ed.) The First Tung Chee-hwa Administration: The First Five Years of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (The Chinese University Press, 2002)
Ma Ngok, “Democratice Development in Hong Kong: A Decade of Lost Opportunities” in Cheng, J. (ed.) The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in its First Decade (Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, 2007)
Nwabueze, Constitutionalism In the Emergent States (1973), Chapter 1.
Carole Peterson, “Hong Kong’s Spring of Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the National Security Bill in 2003” in Fu, Peterson and Yong (eds.) National Security and Fundamental Freedoms: Hong Kong’s Article 23 Under Scrutiny (Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2005).
S.de Smith, Constitutional and Administrative Law (7th ed. 1994), pp.3-13
Benny Tai, “The Development of Constitutionalism in Hong Kong” in Raymond Wacks, The New Legal Order in Hong Kong (HKU Press, 1999)
Benny Y. T. Tai, “Chapter One of Hong Kong’s New Constitution: Constitutional Positioning and Repositioning” in Ming Chan and Alvin Y. So (ed.) Crisis and Transformation in China’s Hong Kong (M.E. Sharpe, 2002)
Benny Tai, “One country two systems: the two perspectives”, (2002) Macau Law Journal (Special Issue) 143-163
Benny Tai, “The Principle of Minimum Legislation for Implementation Article 23 of the Basic Law”, (2002) 32 HKLJ 579-614
Wang Zhenmin, “The Significance of China’s Decision on Universal Suffrage”, Hong Kong Journal, APRIL 2008, No. 10
Po Jen Yap, “Democratic Republic of the Congo v FG Hemisphere: Why Absolute Immunity Should Apply but a Reference was Unnecessary”, (2011) 41 HKLJ 393.
Po Jen Yap, “10 Years of the Basic Law: The Rise, Retreat and Resurgence of Judicial Power in Hong Kong”, (2007) 36 Common Law World Review 166- 191.
Young, S., “Restricting Basic Law Rights in Hong Kong”, (2004) 34 HKLJ 109.
Young, S. and Cullen, R., Electing Hong Kong’s Chief Executive (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010)
Young S. and Law, A. A Critical Introduction to Hong Kong’s Functional Constituencies (Civic Exchange, 2004)
Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Future of Hong Kong (1984)
Constitutional of the people’s Republic of China (1982)
The Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (1990)
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)
Hong Kong Bill OF Rights Ordinance (Cap. 383, 1991)
The Interpretation by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of Articles 22(4) and 24(2)(3) of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (Adopted at the Tenth Session of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People’s Congress on 26 June 1999)
The Interpretation by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of Article 7 of Annex I and Article III of Annex II to the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (Adopted at the Eighth Session of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National People’s Congress on 6 April 2004)
Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Issues Relating to the Methods for Selecting the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the Year 2007 and for Forming the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the Year 2008 (Adopted at the Ninth Session of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National People’s Congress on 26 April 2004)
Interpretation of Paragraph 2, Article 53 of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (Adopted at the Fifteenth Session of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National People’s Congress on 27 April 2005)
Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Issues Relating to the Methods for Selecting the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and for Forming the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the Year 2012 and on Issues Relating to Universal Suffrage (Adopted at the Thirty First Session of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National People’s Congress on 29 December 2007)
Amendment to Annex I to the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China Concerning the Method for the Selection of the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Approved at the Sixteenth Session of the Standing Committee of the Eleventh National People’s Congress on 28 August 2010)
Interpretation of Paragraph 1, Article 13 and Article 19 of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (Adopted at the Twenty Second Session of the Standing Committee of the Eleventh National People’s Congress on 26 August 2011)
Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Issues Relating to the Selection of the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region by Universal Suffrage and on the Method for Forming the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the Year 2016 (Adopted at the Tenth Session of the Standing Committee of the Twelfth National People’s Congress on 31 August 2014)
Chan Kam-Nga and Others v Director of Immigration (FINAL APPEAL NO. 13 OF 1998 (CIVIL))([1999] 1 HKLRD 304, [1999] 1 HKC 347)
The Director of Immigration v. Master Chong Fung Yuen (FACV No. 26 of 2000)([2001] 2 HKLRD 533)
Democratic Republic of the Congo v FG Hemisphere (2011) 14 HKCFAR 95 (provisional judgment)
Democratic Republic of the Congo v FG Hemisphere (2011) 14 HKCFAR 395 (final judgment)
Gurung Kesh Bahadur v Director of Immigration (FACV No. 17 of 2001, [2002] HKCFA 30)
Kong Yunming v The Director of Social Welfare [2013] HKCFA 107.
Kwok Hay Kwong v Medical Council [2008] 3 HKLRD 524
Lau Kong-yung and 16 others v. Director of Immigration (FACV Nos.10 11 of 1999) ([1999] 3 HKLRD 778, [1999] 4 HKC 731)
Leung Kwok Hung and Others v. HKSAR (FACC 1 & 2/2005)
HKSAR v. Ma Wai-kwan David & Others (Reservation of Question of Law No. 1 of 1997) ([1997] HKLRD 761, [1997] 2 HKC 315)
Ng Ka-Ling and others v. Director of Immigration (FINAL APPEAL NO. 14, 15, 16 OF 1998 (CIVIL))([1999] 1 HKLRD 315, [1999] 1 HKC 291)
Ng Ka Ling v. Director of Immigration (No. 2) (FINAL APPEAL NO. 14, 15, 16 OF 1998 (CIVIL))([1999] 1 HKLRD 577, [1999] 1 HKC 425)
HKSAR v Ng Kung-Siu (FACC4/1999)([1999] 3 HKLRD 907, [2000] 1 HKC 117)
Wong Hin Wai and another v. Secretary for Justice HCAL 51, 54/2012
Yeung May Wan v HKSAR [2005] 3 HKLRD 212