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LegCo / Policy Papers

Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services on "Procedure for seeking an interpretation of the Basic Law ('BL') under BL 158(1)" (May 2012).

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Administration's information note for the Legislative Council Finance Committee on "Legal expenses for briefing out cases not covered by Approved Fee Schedules (2008-09 and 2009-10)" (May 2012).

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Legislative Council Brief on “Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provision) Bill 2012” (April 2012).

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Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services on "Law Reform Commission Report on Hearsay in Criminal Proceedings" (April 2012).

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Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services on "Further Information on the Framework Agreement on Hong Kong/Guangdong Co-operation" (April 2012).

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Replies to supplementary questions raised by Finance Committee Members in examining the Estimates of Expenditure 2012-13 (Wednesday, 28 March 2012)

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Controlling Officer's Environmental Report (COER) 2011 (Wednesday, 7 March 2012)

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Replies to initial written questions raised by Finance Committee Members in examining the Estimates of Expenditure 2012-13 (Wednesday, 7 March 2012)

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Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services on "Editorial Record 1 of 2012 (compiled in accordance with section 2B of the Laws (Loose-leaf Publication) Ordinance 1990)", "Proposed Amendments to the Legislation Publication Ordinance (Cap. 614) and the Laws (Loose-leaf Publication) Ordinance 1990" and "Legislation Publication (Revision) Order 2012" (March 2012).

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Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services on "The Interpretation of the Basic Law by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in the case Democratic Republic of the Congo & Ors v. FG Hemisphere Associates LLC" (February 2012).

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Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Establishment Subcommittee on the proposed creation of one supernumerary post of Deputy Principal Government Counsel (DL2) in the Legal Policy Division of the Department of Justice for a period of five years with immediate effect to handle the legal work in respect of constitutional development and electoral affairs (January 2012).

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Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services on "Use of Chinese in Court Proceedings" (December 2011).

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Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Finance Committee to invite Members to approve a supplementary provision of $86.610 million under Head 92 Department of Justice Subhead 234 Court costs for meeting the expected higher-than-normal payment in court costs in 2011-12 (December 2011).

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Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services on "Supplementary Provision to Head 92 - Department of Justice Subhead 234 - Court costs" (November 2011).

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Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services on "Proposed creation of a supernumerary post of Deputy Principal Government Counsel in the Legal Policy Division of the Department of Justice" (November 2011).

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Reply by the Secretary for Justice, Mr Wong Yan Lung, SC, to a question by Hon Ronny Tong Ka-wah on litigations to which the Government was a party in the Legislative Council (Wednesday, 16 November 2011).

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Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services on "2011-12 Policy Initiatives of the Department of Justice" (October 2011).

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Informamtion paper on the "Procedure adopted for referring questions on the Interpretation of Paragraph 1, Article 13 and Article 19 of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in the case Democratic Republic of Congo & Ors v. FG Hemisphere Associates LLC" (October 2011).

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Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services on "Development of Mediation Services - Proposed Mediation Bill" (July 2011).

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Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services on "Response to the background brief provided by the Legislative Council Secretariat entitled 'An independent Director of Public Prosecutions' " (June 2011).

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Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services on "Prosecution Policy and Practice" (June 2011).

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Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services on "Drafting of Legislation - Use of 'Examples' and 'Notes' in legislation, and Numbering System for Bill clauses" (May 2011).

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Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services on "Drafting of Legislation in Chinese" (May 2011).

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Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services on "Further information on the Framework Agreement on Hong Kong/Guangdong Co-operation relating to co-operation on legal matters" (May 2011).

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Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services on "Information on Reciprocal Recognition/Enforcement of Matrimonial Judgments with the Mainland" (May 2011).

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Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services on "Development of Mediation Services" (April 2011).

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Replies to supplementary questions raised by Finance Committee Members in examining the Estimates of Expenditure 2011-12 (Wednesday, 6 April 2011).

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Replies to initial written questions raised by Finance Committee Members in examining the Estimates of Expenditure 2011-12 (Wednesday, 23 March 2011).

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Administration's paper for the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services on the reciprocal enforcement of arbitral awards with the Mainland and with Macao (February 2011).

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Written reply by the Secretary for Justice, Mr Wong Yan Lung, SC, to a question by the Hon Cheung Kwok-che on mediation service in the Legislative Council (Wednesday, 23 February 2011).

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Written reply by the Secretary for Justice, Mr Wong Yan Lung, SC, to a question by Dr Hon Margaret Ng on Manpower issues in the Prosecutions Division of the Department of Justice in the Legislative Council (Wednesday, 26 January 2011).

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