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As a result, the scope of the common-law system of judicial review has been significantly broadened.
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The power of the CFA in a common-law system must include a power to finally interpret all laws in Hong Kong.
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And inter-circuit competition is essential for our common-law system to work well.
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It is natural for those familiar with the common-law system to object to a non-judicial body overturning an interpretation given by a final appellate court.
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In a common-law system, each decision of the court acts as precedent for future cases and the interpretations form part of the law of Hong Kong.
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Therefore, some aspects of the common-law system have been modified.
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With the new constitutional order laid down in the Basic Law on July 1, 1997, the common-law system is preserved, except insofar it is inconsistent with the Basic Law.
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To advocate an open-ended qualification of the common-law system by introducing unspecified civil-law concepts is to betray the basic spirit and intent of the "basic policies" and the Basic Law.
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The two factors most closely associated with higher liability costs are the number of lawyers and whether the country has a common-law system like the U.S., where judges decide much of the law governing liability or a civil law tradition, where the rules are set down in a relatively unchanging civil code.
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For non-lawyers who want an introduction to the judge-made system we call the common law, this book is the ideal primer.
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Our common values, our common belief in the rule of law, in democracy, in freedom, in a free market system -- all those things bind us together, as do the extraordinary economic and commercial relationships that we have and the people-to-people relationships that we have.
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