PROFESSOR FU HUALING

Professor Fu’s research interest includes constitutional law and human rights, with a special focus on criminal justice system and media law in China. His recent work include National Security and Fundamental Freedoms: Hong Kong’s Article 23 Under Scrutiny (Hong Kong University Press, 2005) (co-edited with Carole Petersen and Simon Young) and The Struggle for Coherence: Constitutional Interpretation in Hong Kong (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) (co-edited with Lison Harris and Simon Young). He teaches Corruption, Human Rights in China, and Legal Relations between Hong Kong and Mainland China.  For more on Professor Fu, please click here.

JUSTICE MICHAEL HARTMANN

South China Morning Post

September 10, 2008 Wednesday

Judge in high-profile cases wins promotion to the appeal court

by Albert Wong

A judge who has presided over some of the city’s landmark constitutional and civil rights cases has been promoted to the Court of Appeal.

Mr. Justice Michael Hartmann has been in charge of the constitutional and administrative law list in the High Court during a busy period for judicial reviews, but will sit in the Court of Appeal from today.

His judgments include the upholding of a strict presumption against harbour reclamation, the finding of certain sections of the Crimes Ordinance to be discriminatory towards homosexuals and therefore unconstitutional, and the quashing of the fine against senior official Mike Rowse for the Harbourfest fiasco due to procedural unfairness.

For more of this article, read here.

More details on Justice Hartmann’s rulings.