'In fact ... the courts of early twentieth-century Hong Kong featured elements that are very often used by common-law practitioners and supporters to describe the rule-of-man (or rule-by-law) legal systems of authoritarian regimes: the use of the law to camouflage the suppression of political activities; a lack of judicial independence and impartiality in trial hearings; threats by the prosecution to deny defendants' right to summon further witnesses; and disrespect for freedom of expression and assembly. As noted, my ongoing collection of court cases from early twentieth-century Hong Kong until its fall to Japan in 1941 shows that these elements were far more widespread than this single case, and represent continuing and collaborative efforts on the part of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of the colonial government to deny freedom of expression and assembly ...
... The efforts of the judiciary, like those of the legislature and executive, did not, and were never intended to, serve the rule of law, at least in its ideal form, but rather to maintain a colonial form of justice that served the Empire's objective to maintain and exert strong control over its colonies in the Far East.'
- Michael Ng, 'Rule of Law in Hong Kong History Demythologised: Student Umbrella Movement of 1919' (2016) 46 Hong Kong Law Journal 829, 846-847
早排睇Quentin Skinner
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