Chapter 3: The Background of Concepts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Table of Cases xv
7. Table of Legislation xxxv
8. Part 1: Introduction and Background to the Study
9. Chapter 1: Concerns and Organization 1
10. Chapter 2: The Multifaceted Basic Law and Its Assumed Purpose 15
11. Chapter 3: The Background of Concepts 19
12. Part 2: The Pioneering Judicial Voyage: 1997–2013
13. Chapter 4: 1997–1998: Introspective Institutional Clarification 67
14. Chapter 5: 1999: The Triumph, Tragedy and Restarting of Constitutional Assertiveness 73
15. Chapter 6: 2000–2001: Demonstrating the Common Law Approach 83
16. Chapter 7: 2002–2003 91
17. Chapter 8: 2004–2005 109
18. Chapter 9: 2006: A Significant Year 127
19. Chapter 10: 2007–2008: The Courts of Judicature under the Separation of Powers of the Basic Law 139
20. Chapter 11: 2009–2010: An Unexpected Transitional Period 143
21. Chapter 12: 2011–2013: The Gathering Politicization of the Judicial Process 147
22. Chapter 13: The Judicial Review Phenomenon and the Fundamental Choice 173
23. Part 3: The HKSAR Courts’ Vulnerable Judicial Supremacy
24. Chapter 14: The Jurisprudence that Constitutes the Claim and Initial Observations 177
25. Chapter 15: Mainland Scholarship Questions HKSAR Judicial Review of Legislation 185
26. Chapter 16: The Practice in the Courts of the Macao Special Administrative Region 205
27. Chapter 17: In Defence of Judicial Review of Legislation by the Courts of the HKSAR: Supplementing an Under-theorized Exposition 215
28. Chapter 18: Conclusion: Arguably Less Vulnerable, Barring Local Politics 239
29. Part 4: The Intra-SAR Relationships: The Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary
30. Chapter 19: The Declaratory Judgment in Exercise of Constitutional Jurisdiction and Its Enforcement beyond the Four Walls of the Court 243
31. Chapter 20: Justiciability and Political Questions 263
32. Chapter 21: Justification and Deference: The Proportionality Analysis 281
33. Chapter 22: Remedies Following Constitutional Adjudication 313
34. Chapter 23: Procedural Reactions to the Judicial Review Phenomenon 327
35. Chapter 24: Managing the Political Risk of Judicial Review: Strategic Judging within the HKSAR 349
36. Part 5: The Central-SAR Relationship
37. Chapter 25: Introduction 355
38. Chapter 26: Article 19 of the Basic Law of the HKSAR 359
39. Chapter 27: Article 158 of the Basic Law of the HKSAR 371
40. Chapter 28: Article 18 of the Basic Law of the HKSAR 443
41. Chapter 29: Articles 20, 21, 22, 48(8) and 131 of the Basic Law of the HKSAR 445
42. Chapter 30: Article 159 of the Basic Law of the HKSAR 447
43. Chapter 31: ‘Second-best’ Constitutionalism 459
44. Part 6: Reconstructing the Judicial or Judicial Reconstruction
45. Chapter 32: The Challenge of the ‘Second Founding’ 465
46. Bibliography 509
47. Appendix: Excerpts of the Basic Law of the HKSAR 551
48. Index 559