Read the full judgment text of on BabelCite. was delivered on 21 April 1995.
1. Elections to the Legislative Council are due to take place in September. Half of its members are to be elected by functional constituencies. The electorate in these constituencies varies enormously in size. Moreover, a large number of people in Hong Kong are not eligible to vote in these constituencies at all. For these and other reasons, it is claimed that a significant group of people in Hong Kong have been disenfranchised. Two of them have commenced these proceedings. They seek a declarati