Hong Kong Public Law Reports, Vol.1 (1991)

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Hong Kong University Press, 1 oct. 1993 - 428 pagini
The Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance came into force in June 1991, ushering in an important new stage of development in the Hong Kong legal system. This series contains all the judgements in which Bill of Rights issues are decided, and is thus an invaluable reference for legal practitioners.

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Pagina xxxix - Everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right shall include freedom to have or to adopt a relgiion or belief of his choice, and freedom, either individually or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching.
Pagina 19 - Anyone arrested or detained on a criminal charge shall be brought promptly before a judge or other officer authorized by law to exercise judicial power and shall be entitled to trial within a reasonable time or to release.
Pagina 371 - The High Contracting Parties shall secure to everyone within their jurisdiction the rights and freedoms defined in Section I of this Convention SECTION I Article 2 1.
Pagina lxiv - Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association with others, including the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Pagina lix - Everyone has the right to liberty and security of person. No one shall be deprived of his liberty save in the following cases and in accordance with a procedure prescribed by law: a.
Pagina lxii - ... to defend himself in person Or through legal assistance of his own choosing or, if he has not sufficient means to pay for legal assistance, to be given it free when the interests of justice so require; d.
Pagina xxxvii - No one shall be deprived of his liberty merely on the ground of inability to fulfil a contractual obligation. Article 2 1. Everyone lawfully within the territory of a State shall, within that territory, have the right to liberty of movement and freedom to choose his residence.
Pagina lxii - No one shall be held guilty of any criminal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a criminal offence under national or international law at the time when it was committed.
Pagina lxiii - No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Pagina 72 - To be tried in his presence, and to defend himself in person or through legal assistance of his own choosing; to be informed, if he does not have legal assistance, of this right; and to have legal assistance assigned to him, in any case where the interests of justice so require, and without payment by him in any such case if he does not have sufficient means to pay for it...

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