Constitutionalism in Asia in the Early Twenty-First Century

government to introduce necessary remedial legislation. 42 At the same time, it upheld the controversial flag desecration offenc ...

to introduce not a comprehensive bill, but a bill to prohibit discrimination on the ground of sex and disability. The Sex Discri ...

Chan Mei Yeev.Director of Immigration, 53 that while ratification of a treaty might give rise to a legitimate expectation, such ...

Deference is a controversial, if not also a dangerous, concept. 57 In a system subscribing to the doctrine of separation of powe ...

in matters involving government policy on allocation of resources. Lam J, in his concurring judgment, went further to hold that ...

economic rights would be to rely on alternative, more conventional grounds such as the right to equality before the law, althoug ...

election, and the remaining half would be returned by election among members of the district councillors, who themselves were re ...

demanded by the pan-democrats, and the reduction in size of the Election Committee responsible for the election of the chief exe ...

and vigilant in safeguarding fundamental rights and liberties. There are inherent problems with the model of ‘one country, two s ...

and the executive government in the past; and loose political coalitions have not proved to work. One of the solutions is to dev ...

At the same time, the role of Hong Kong in the development of China has changed over time. It was intended to be a showcase for ...

9 Constitutional developments in Vietnam in the first decade of the twenty-first century Bui Ngoc Son i. introduction Under the ...

subordinate positions. The National Assembly Standing Committee (NASC) is the permanent body of the NA principally responsible f ...

Notwithstanding the ascendance of socialist principles, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, as the result of econom ...

responsibility; and alleviating cumbersome, corrupt, and functionary procedures in the administrative system. Apart from the sta ...

For the party, a substantial change of the Constitution is delicate because this change would open a range of issues, such as pa ...

arrangement and national governance, such as popular sovereignty, the rule of law, and judicial independence. Like the socialist ...

elected or approved by it, including the President and Vice President of State, the chairman of the NA, the vice chairmen and me ...

amended constitution introduced a mechanism of veto of all ordinances of the NASC: the President of State can propose to the NAS ...

tradition, socialist legality requires the uniform application of law on a national scale, and for this aspiration the procuracy ...