Non-fiction
Judges
- Recollections by Kemal Bokhary NPJ
- Another Disaster by Denys Roberts, former AG, CS, CJ in Hong Kong #
- How we are Judged by Benjamin T. M. Liu, Justice of Appeal
- I Rest My Case: A Memoir by Neil Kaplan, former judge of the Construction and Arbitration List *
- Justice without fear or favour : reflections of a Chinese magistrate in colonial Hong Kong (剛正不阿) by Magistrate Marjorie Chui
- Myself a Mandarin by Austin Coates, an Englishman unexpectedly appointed magistrate in a country district in New Territories, where he was charged with applying Qing law to settle local disputes.
Counsel
- First Thing We Do– Let’s Kill All the Lawyers by Gary Alderdice KC
- A Seventh Child and the Law (與法有緣) # and Tales from No. 9 Ice House Street (法訟趣聞：雪廠街九號的故事) # by Patrick Yu
- From Hackney to Hong Kong—The Story of a Lucky Man by Clive Grossman SC
Blogs
- Bill Siu Blog Chinese language blog by a former magistrate, Bill Siu, mainly about criminal law and practice
Fiction
- Game for Vultures Page-turner made into a film authored by Michael Hartmann, a Rhodesian attorney who rose to become an NPJ on the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal
- The Old filth Trilogy: a series of novels about an imaginary barrister who became a judge in colonial Hong Kong
- City of the Queen a condensed English translation of a trilogy of Chinese-langauge novels, featuring an imaginary first Chinese judge on the Hong Kong Supreme Court
Popular music
- 為你鍾情 classic Cantopop by Leslie Cheung, written by Ching Y Wong who rose to become a QC.
Some high profile cases concerning lawyers
Kevin Egan cases
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R v Egan a pre-handover criminal trial against Egan. See The Kevin Egan’ case: an analysis from a criminal justice system perspective, a HKU Masters thesis by Dr. B.C. Connell
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HKSAR v Egan & Others Egan was prosecuted for attempting to disclose information about the identity of a participant in the witness protection programme. Convicted at first instance, acquitted on appeal
Donald Koo cases
- Kao, Lee & Yip (A Firm) v Donald Koo Hoi-yan restrictive convenant; contempt
- Various Shanghai Land defendants v HKSAR co-conspirators rule; professional advisors declared “without any cloud over his or her innocence” by CFA.
Pang Yiu-hung Robert v. Commissioner of Police & anor [2003] 2 HKLRD 125
- LPP and warrant; arret of a barrister (later to become SC) declared unlawful.
- Leading authority for th proposition that there is no property in a witness; defence barrister acquitted on final appeal for a direct contact with prosecution witness
Legend:
* indicates I have not got access to the book yet: let me know where to borrow it.
# indicates I read it more than once.