caa a22 4500 388046139 CHVBK 20180307125038.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199804 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S002058930006187X doi S002058930006187X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S002058930006187X Chan Johannes M. M. Hong Kong's Bill of Rights: Its Reception of and Contribution to International and Comparative Jurisprudence [Elektronische Daten] [Johannes M. M. Chan] The Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance entered into force on 8 June 1991. Its purpose is to incorporate into the law of Hong Kong the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ("the ICCPR”) as applied to Hong Kong. Being one of the first occasions where the ICCPR has been given direct legal force in a common law jurisdiction, the Hong Kong experience will provide an interesting case study on how an international human rights instrument is received and interpreted in domestic law. Indeed, shortly after the coming into operation of the Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance, the late Professor Opsahl predicted that it would give the ICCPR, and by implication the Human Rights Committee, a potential impact on the Hong Kong domestic legal system which could hardly be expected in other countries. He even suggested that, in dealing with matters which the Human Rights Committee has not yet considered, the interpretation of the Hong Kong courts in applying the Bill of Rights may provide a useful supplement to international human rights law. The Bill of Rights Ordinance is now seven years old. This article will address two issues: first, the impact international and comparative jurisprudence has had on the interpretation of the Hong Kong Bill of Rights and, second, the contribution the Hong Kong jurisprudence on the Bill of Rights has or could have made to the development of international and comparative human rights law. Copyright © British Institute of International and Comparative Law 1998 International and Comparative Law Quarterly Cambridge University Press 47/2(1998-04), 306-336 0020-5893 47:2<306 1998 47 ILQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S002058930006187X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S002058930006187X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Chan Johannes M. M. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International and Comparative Law Quarterly Cambridge University Press 47/2(1998-04), 306-336 0020-5893 47:2<306 1998 47 ILQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 350867003 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge