THE ASSOCIATION OF EXPATRIATE CIVIL SERVANTS OF HONG KONG AND OTHERS v THE SECRETARY OF THE CIVIL SERVICE AND ANOTHER

Read the full judgment text of on BabelCite..

1. Civil servants in Hong Kong are employed on either overseas or local conditions of service.  The existence of these two sets of conditions reflects Hong Kong’s historical status as a colony of the UK, and are in part the legacy of an unquestioned assumption, prevalent until the Second World War, that English-speaking British expatriates were best equipped to administer Hong Kong, at least in the higher echelons of the Civil Service.  The existence of different sets of conditions for different