Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. I. Joining the Legal Profession
5. 1. Town and gown 1
6. II. Professionalism and Professional Privilege
7. 2. In memory of Mr Justice Charles Ching: One of the best advocates of our times 21
8. 3. A clarification that did not clarify anything 30
9. III. Public Interest: Whose Interests?
10. 4. David v Goliath: Reclamation of Victoria Harbour 35
11. 5. The most misunderstood case: The Zhuhai Bridge case 51
12. 6. Defending an unpopular cause: The social welfare case 55
13. 7. The story of Eva: The foreign domestic helper case 67
14. 8. Big brother is watching: Covert surveillance 77
15. IV. Equality before the Law: Law for the Rich and the Resourceful?
16. 9. The Westies 83
17. 10. The rich, the poor, and the sandwiched: Pro bono legal service 89
18. V. Presumption of Innocence
19. 11. The Sham Shui Po drug addicts case 97
20. 12. The best interest of the client: The MTR case 108
21. 13. A confession that came too late 112
22. 14. Disturbing the past and paralysing the future 115
23. VI. Fairness in Public Administration: What a Mess!
24. 15. Right to legal representation 121
25. 16. The three sisters 130
26. 17. A duty to give reasons 135
27. VII. The Labyrinth of Legal Process and Civil Justice Reform
28. 18. Justice delayed is justice denied 141
29. 19. Vexatious litigants 147
30. VIII. Free Speech
31. 20. Human rights are not absolute: A right to defame? 151
32. 21. ‘I do not report the matter to him’: The paparazzi case 159
33. IX. Fair Hearing and Personal Liberty
34. 22. Trial observers and humanitarian missions 175
35. 23. Liberty of the person 181
36. X. Law and Politics
37. 24. The whole is more than the sum of its parts: The Shen Yun case 187
38. 25. The mysterious case of the missing documents 195
39. 26. My trip to Macau 212
40. XI. When the Law Is Absurd
41. 27. Could we shoot the red light? 219
42. 28. Let’s kill all the lawyers! When is a pigeon not a pigeon? 225
43. XII. Law and Moral Choices
44. 29. Whose life is it anyway? 229
45. 30. When a woman is not a woman: The transgender case 237
46. Index 245
47. About the author 251