Read the full judgment text of CACV 000001/2000 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 20 June 2000.
1. Hong Kong's two municipal councils were abolished at the beginning of this year. Their functions were transferred to other bodies. Those bodies were not elected bodies. That was believed by the Applicants to be contrary to various provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ("the ICCPR"), the Basic Law and the Bill of Rights . Accordingly, an application for leave to apply for judicial review of the decisions which resulted in local government in Hong Kong being in
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