Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong

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Titles Covered (A-E)

[10] Administrative Law
[15] Agency
[20] Animals
[25] Arbitration
[30] Auction
[40] Banking and Finance
[45] Bankruptcy
[50] Betting, Gaming and Lotteries
[55] Bills of Exchange and Other Negotiable Instruments
[60] Bribery, Corruption and Organized Crime
[65] Building and Construction
[70] Charities
[80] Citizenship
[85] Civil Aviation
[90] Civil Procedure: High Court (Vol 8)
[90] Civil Procedure: District Court (2)
[95] Companies and Corporations
[100] Conflict of Laws
[105] Constitutional Law and Human Rights
[110] Contempt of Court
[113] Competition
[115] Contract
[120] Coroners
125] Courts and Judicial System
[130] Criminal Law
[130] Criminal Procedure
[133] Discrimination
[135] Education
[140] Elections
[145] Employment
[155] Entertainment, Hotels, Sport and Tourism
[160] Environment
[165] Equity
[170] Estoppel
[175] Evidence

Titles Covered (F-J)

[180] Family Law
[183] Financial Services
[185] Firearms, Weapons and Explosives
[190] Foreign Relations
[200] Guarantee and Indemnity
[205] Health and Safety
[215] Immigration
[220] Insurance
[225] Intellectual Property: Passing Off, Registered Designs and Patents
[225] Intellectual Property: Trade Marks, Copyright and Plant Varieties Rights

Titles Covered (K-O)

[230] Land
[235] Landlord and Tenant
[238] Legal Aid
[240] Legal Practitioners
[245] Limitation of Actions
[250] Maritime Law
[255] Media and Communications
[260] Medicine, Pharmacy and Drugs
[265] Mental Health
[275] Misrepresentation and Fraud
[280] Mortgages and Securities
[285] New Territories

Titles Covered (P-Z)

[290] Partnerships and Joint Ventures
[295] Personal Property
[300] Police and Emergency Services
[315] Professions and Trades
[320] Public Health and Municipal Services
[325] Rating
[335] Religion
[340] Remedies
[345] Road Traffic
[350] Roads and Tunnels
[355] Sale of Goods
[360] Social Welfare and Services
[365] Statutes
[370] Taxation and Revenue
[380] Tort
[385] Town Planning
[390] Trade and Labour
[395] Transport
[400] Trusts
[410] Voluntary Associations
[420] Weights and Measures
[425] Wills, Probate, Administration and Succession

Editorial Advisory Board

The Hon Mr Justice Kemal Bokhary, GBM, Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal (Chairman)

The Hon Mr Justice Joseph Fok, Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal

The Hon Mr Justice Patrick Chan, GBM, Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal

The Hon Mr Justice Robert Ribeiro, Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal

Mr John Barry Mortimer, GBS, Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal

Mr Anthony Rogers, GBS, former Vice President of the Court of Appeal

Mr William Waung, former Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court

More Information

Updates: The content is kept up-to-date with 18 reissue volumes published a year, and a bi-monthly Current Service update. All care is taken to include new cases, legislative changes as well as updates in the practice and procedure of each area of law so you always have the latest information.

Format: 55 Bound Volumes; 2 Looseleaf Binders (Current Service updates), Lexis Advance® Hong Kong & Lexis Red™

ISBN: 9789888111183