Read the full judgment text of HCAL 151/1999 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 26 February 2001.
1. In January 2000, the Hong Kong Government assumed executive and administrative responsibility for various functions of a regional or local nature which I shall describe as municipal affairs. These functions were taken over from two municipal councils which were then abolished. At the time of the abolition, there were created a number of bodies called District Councils. These bodies, however, exercised no executive or administrative power; they were purely advisory. The Applicant has brought t