AJ 014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: New York Agreement, Absolute Immunity, Geographical Constituency

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Administration of Justice (AJ)
• Course: AJ 014
• Professor: Wheeler

Document Summary

1st interpretation -> prevent the influx of mainlanders / low population growth in hk. Question: hkg could use administrative measure to absorb these type of children. 2nd interpretation -> hk court ignore npcsc when deciding. What if in the middle of a trial, the npcsc changes the law for this case -> retrospective to the current trial. Right to be heard -> absent in npcsc. Need to amend annex ii -> npcsc decided when the need was need to initiate political reform. Npcsc laid the five steps of political reform. Npcsc: no need to change ce election in 2007 // increase in both. 3rd interpretation -> requested by the hk government functional and geographical constituencies in legco. No urgency -> could wait for 7 more years and then decide. Judicial review initiated -> npcsc made unnecessary interpretation -> killed the judicial review.