Asian Legal History – Penalties of Empire: Capital Trials in Colonial Hong Kong (Dr. Chris Munn, Honorary Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong)
9.01, Chen Yu Tung Tower, Law FacultyAbstract ‘We must have a procedure – if we are going to hang anyone – that is just,’ said Chief Justice Sir Francis Piggott in 1909, on discovering that Chinese persons accused of murder were being denied interpretation in Hong Kong’s courts. Due process, no matter how costly or inconvenient, was ‘one of the penalties […]