Read the full judgment text of HCMP 002892/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. For some 20 years, the Hong Kong Government had been regulating cargo work carried out on the water-fronts of Hong Kong by a statutory scheme. By Port Control (Cargo Working Areas) Ordinance which came into force in 1974 ("the Ordinance"), any area of unleased Crown Land (including any road) and any area of water adjoining any such area could be declared by the Government by order published in the Gazette as either a public water-front or a public cargo working area or an excluded water-front