Legislative Council Building, Central, Hong Kong 香港立法會大樓
2010年12月2日
The Legislative Council Building (traditional Chinese: 立法會大樓, former 立法局大樓)of Hong Kong, also called the Former Supreme Court Building (前最高法院大樓), was the home of the former Supreme Court until 1985, when it was renamed and became home to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It is located in Central Hong Kong, along the eastern side of Statue Square, directly west of Chater Garden.
The Supreme Court of Hong Kong was moved to the Supreme Court Building, Hong Kong after 1985 and remained there until 1997. It is now renamed the High Court Building.
The building was designed by Sir Aston Webb and Ingress Bell, the British architect responsible for the eastern façade of Buckingham Palace and the Cromwell Road frontage of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
It was built on reclaimed land, and opened on 15 January 1912. The two-storey granite building is neo-classical in style supported by Ionic columns. It is surmounted by a blind-folded statue of Justice, represented by the Themis[1], the Greek Goddess of Justice and Law. This statue is a replica of the one erected on the Old Bailey of London.
In 1978, this building was severely affected by the construction of MTR; therefore, it had to undergo some restoration afterwards.
The Exterior of the Old Supreme Court is one of the 92 declared monuments of Hong Kong.
For a time in the 1980s, the Supreme Court was moved to the Former French Mission Building, which was then used by the Victoria District Court.
Following the move to the Tamar site in 2011, the current building will revert back to use as home to the Court of Final Appeal (Hong Kong).[2]
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1962 COMMUNIST CHINA DOCUMENTARY RED CHINA PART 2 14684
In this episode of Red China host Chet Huntley traces the consolidation of power by Mao Tse-tung and China’s Communist Party then gives an inside look at the country following the slowing (or collapse) of the “Great Leap Forward” courtesy of footage from Swiss photographer Fernand Gigon. Part 2 focuses on the footage Gigon captured during his 1961 visit and begins with Chet Huntley addressing the camera. Then the episode cuts to a Chinese delegation in Canada walking with Canadian officials. Footage shows rural China from the window of a train. Gigon sits on a bed in what appears to be a hotel room and discusses filming in China and how he had to smuggle his film out of the country (01:32). The episode shows Gigon’s footage, starting with shots of Canton (Guangzhou) and the hotel where Gigon stayed (02:11), followed by footage of the Pearl River, men rowing boats, and people pulling wagons loaded with wood, sacks, or cargo boxes along Canton’s streets. People stand on a sidewalk and read the People’s Party newspaper (03:09). A soldier stands amid a group of civilians. Children look through propaganda comic books (03:43). Men unload baskets of cucumbers in Canton (04:10). A man sits above the river, presumably on a sampan, eating a meal. There are more shots of the boats and what Gigon calls the “Sampan people.” At a Sampan community (most likely a Tanka community), children learn the Chinese alphabet (05:12). Due to a shortage of school buildings, some children learn outdoors. Women lift a heavy drum up a steep ramp (06:11). People stretch iron bars in a street. Footage shows people turning a hand-powered mill, and sailboats moving on the river. Gigon then shares his footage from Peking (Beijing), starting with footage taken while driving down the Avenue of Long Peace, also known as Eternal Peace Street or Chang’an Avenue (07:25). People wait in food queues. Chinese walk down a street (08:10), including women with bound feet. Men haul freight and pig iron on bicycles. Students in uniforms march into a park (09:57), where they sit for a lecture party doctrine. Young children of the Party’s upper echelons do exercises as part of their elite preschool (10:42). Men and women practice Tai chi (11:18). Supporters walk in rain (12:15), demonstrating the strength of the government during a visit by Ghana’s President Kwame Nkrumah. A man works a small vegetable plot in the middle of Peking (13:42), which is apparently private property. Gigon then shares his footage from rural communes near Wuhan. At the first commune, peasants work out in a field (15:15), apparently staged by the government; this is followed by people cultivating dry soil that is not staged. An ox turns an irrigation wheel (16:37). Additional footage shows a man plowing a field with an ox-drawn plow, another man stacking melons (17:30), and women spraying insecticide on crops in a field. The episode cuts back to Gigon, who sits in the room and gives his overall assessment of his visit to China and the real state of the Chinese people (19:05). Huntley then addresses the camera about the end of the “Great Leap Forward.” The episode concludes with footage of soldiers marching (21:58), people turning a massive wheel for a pump or mill, and people moving snow on the side of a mountain as they build a road or railway (presumably to Tibet).
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What Makes HK’s Court System Unique? (2019)
Do you know that judges from other common law jurisdictions have been sitting in Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal? This unique arrangement of having non-permanent judges hearing cases in the highest appellate court is provided for under the Basic Law. The continuation of the common law system is firmly entrenched under the Basic Law, which also guarantees judicial independence in Hong Kong. The city is ranked No.1 in Asia and No.8 globally for judicial independence, according to the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report 2018.
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High Court denies redress for Chinese WWII slave labourer
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1. Lawyers and plaintiff's son, Liu Huanxin walking with banner and photo of plaintiff Liu Lianren
2. Close up photo of Liu Lianren
2. Journalists
3. Liu Huanxin walking into court building
4. Sign reading Court
5. Wide shot Tokyo High Court
6. Liu and supporters coming out of court after ruling with banner reading Unjust ruling
7. Banner
8. Pan from press to Liu
9. Close up Liu
10. Journalists
11. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Liu Huanxin, son of deceased plaintiff:
It was extremely unjust verdict. Japan's militarism became evident. I am dissatisfied with the result and we will appeal to the Supreme Court. We will continue our fight for the sake of 40,000 (Chinese forced) labourers.
12. Journalists
13. Tilt down from Liu to document written in Chinese
14. Close up of document written in Chinese
15. SOUNDBITE (Japanese): Taizo Morita, plaintiff's attorney
This was extremely unjust ruling which did not allow for our claim for compensation. But we are happy that in the verdict the court admitted to Liu's suffering and (Japan's) failure in its obligation to protect (Liu) after the war. So, we presume the court admitted to the country's moral obligation.
16. Wide shot of media
STORYLINE:
The family of a Chinese man forced to work for the Japanese military during World War II was denied compensation on Thursday after a high court reversed a landmark lower court ruling, saying Tokyo isn't accountable for wrongs committed by the country's wartime leaders, officials said.
In July 2001, the Tokyo District Court ordered the Japanese government to pay 20 million yen (183,000 US dollars) to the relatives of former slave labourer Liu Lianren for forcing him to work and live under harsh conditions for nearly 15 years in Japan.
After fleeing his Imperial Army captors in the closing months of the war, Liu hid for more than a decade in the mountains of northern Japan, not knowing that the fighting had ended.
After the 2001 ruling, Japan's Justice Ministry appealed.
The Tokyo High Court on Thursday acknowledged Liu's hardships, but overturned the lower court ruling, saying Tokyo doesn't have to compensate the victim because it isn't responsible for the wrongdoing of its wartime leaders - who were following a pre-war Constitution, the court and Liu's lawyer said.
Liu was forced to work at a mine on Japan's northern main island of Hokkaido in 1944 after Japan's Imperial Army took him from his home in Shantong Province in China.
He escaped from the labour camp in April 1945, four mouths before Japan's surrender, and went into hiding in remote mountains on Hokkaido until February 1958.
Liu died just before the previous ruling, at the age of 87 and his son took over the suit, originally filed in March 1996.
His 61-year-old son, Liu Huanxin, called the ruling extremely unfair and said he will appeal to the supreme court.
The 2001 ruling was the first-ever by a Japanese court ordering the state to pay compensation to a Chinese victim of Japan's wartime forced labour.
In that ruling, the court said the government, which was under US occupation at the time, ignored a US order to help forced labourers return home.
Japan not only failed to provide protection and support for Liu but also has made no effort to compensate, it said.
About 40-thousand Chinese were shipped to Japan to work, mostly in mines and ports, between 1943 and 1945.
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More brand names. Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and the old and new Bank of China buildings can be seen on the right. The very old building on the left which had been converted into the Legco Building for some years will soon resumed its original function as the Supreme Court of Hong Kong as the Legco moved to the new office at Tamar.
New-look Court of Final Appeal unveiled
The judiciary threw open the doors to the new home of the city's highest court Friday, showcasing a HK$464-million renovation which has left its exterior largely untouched while preserving the 2.7-meter statue of Themis, the Greek goddess of justice and law.
西九龍法院大樓 (West Kowloon Law Courts Building）
西九龍法院大樓 (West Kowloon Law Courts Building）
Former British Consulate of Shanghai
The Former Consulate-General of the United Kingdom / 英国驻上海总领事馆 building located in Shanghai, China, is one of the oldest buildings on the Bund.
It is housed in a compound that housed a number of buildings used by the British Consulate-General. The building served as the home of the Consulate-General and British Supreme Court for China until 8 December 1941 when the Japanese occupied the Shanghai International Settlement at the beginning of the Pacific War. The British Supreme Court for China was abolished under the British–Chinese Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extra-Territorial Rights in China. After the war, the Consulate-General returned to the site and remained until 1949 when Britain withdrew its consular staff with the communist occupation of Shanghai. The consulate re-opened in 1954 and was closed again in 1967 during the Cultural Revolution.
US asks Hong Kong to extradite man accused of raping his daughter
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1. Wide of Eastern Law Courts Building
2. Close-up of Eastern Law Courts Building
3. Kenneth John Freeman's lawyer, Giles Surman outside building
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Giles Surman, Kenneth John Freeman's lawyer:
The United States Government have made an extradition request, and we need to consider the paper work which has been served on us. We received this morning about ten minutes before we went into court and we've got no complaint about that but we need now a couple of weeks to go through that voluminous paper work, consider our position, I need to discuss it with my client and then we will make a decision whether we are contesting the extradition or whether it will be an uncontested request.
5. Law firm staff walking away from court building
6. Surman walking away from building with others
7. Mid-shot of prison van
8. Close-up of prison van
9. Wide of police vehicle reversing
10. Close-up of police vehicle
11. Various of prison van driving away
12. Scroll down on website showing details of Freeman
13. Various of Freeman on website with daughter
14. Website showing US Marshals 15 most wanted
15. Website detailing story of Freeman's arrest
STORYLINE:
US authorities have formally asked Hong Kong to extradite an American man accused of raping his daughter and posting videos of the abuse online, the suspect's lawyer said Tuesday.
Kenneth John Freeman, a fugitive on America's most-wanted lists, will tell a Hong Kong court on July 19 whether he plans to challenge the extradition request, his lawyer Giles Surman told The Associated Press.
Surman said he needed time to consider what to do next because he hasn't read the bundle of documents on the extradition request and supporting evidence that he received Tuesday morning.
I need to discuss it with my client and then we will make a decision whether we are contesting the extradition or whether it will be an uncontested request, he said.
Freeman appeared in a Hong Kong court briefly on Tuesday to set the date for a hearing to allow him to challenge the extradition request.
If Freeman decides to contest the extradition request on July 19, a committal hearing will be called in the weeks that follow, Surman said.
Freeman has been charged in Benton County Superior Court in Washington state with three counts of child rape and jumping bail.
He faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if convicted.
He also faces federal charges of producing and distributing child pornography.
The 44-year-old bodybuilder, who used to be a volunteer reserve sheriff's deputy, had been on the US Marshals Service and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's most-wanted list.
Freeman fled his home in Seattle last year after his 17-year-old daughter told her mother that he had assaulted her four years earlier.
The teenager also went on national television to tell her story, which helped identify her as the victim in a series of child pornography videos on the Internet, according to the US Marshals Service.
Freeman flew from Vancouver, Canada, to Hong Kong in March 2006, then to China, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Chinese authorities helped track down Freeman in the eastern city of Suzhou near Shanghai, where he is believed to have been working as a computer adviser for a US-based company.
Hong Kong authorities arrested Freeman in May at a checkpoint with mainland China.
Authorities waited to arrest Freeman in Hong Kong because mainland China does not have an extradition treaty with the United States.
Hong Kong is part of China, but is governed separately and has its own legal system.
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Update on sentencing of Australian drug smugglers
1. Mid shot entrance of High Court building
2. Close up High Court name at entrance
3. Representative of Australian Consulate in Hong Kong walking out of court house
4. Close up representative of Australian Consulate inside car
5. Wide shot car driving off
6. Wide shot defendant Hutchinson Tran's lawyer David Boyton (left) and prosecutor Derek Lai
7. Close up Boyton on escalator
8. Boyton going down on escalator
9. Close up defendant Rachel Ann Diaz's lawyer Peter Callaghan
10. Wide shot Callaghan walking past journalists
11. Defendant Chris Ha Vo's lawyer John McNamara walking out of court house
12. McNamara waiting for car outside court building
13. McNamara walking to get into taxi
14. Wide shot taxi leaving
15. Mid shot High Court building
STORYLINE:
Three Australians - including two teenagers - who have pleaded guilty in a heroin smuggling case appeared in a Hong Kong court for their sentencing hearing on Monday.
The defendants, all from Sydney, face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment and a fine of five million (m) Honk Kong Dollars, (645-thousand US Dollars) prosecutor Derek Lai has said.
The accused include 16 year old Chris Ha Vo, 18 year old hairstylist Rachel Ann Diaz, and 23 year old Hutchinson Tran.
Vo was initially not identified when he was arrested because he was 15 and the media are not allowed by law to publish the names of minors in court cases.
The trio pleaded not guilty in August to trafficking of a dangerous drug.
But in December, Tran and Vo changed their pleas to guilty. Diaz later also pleaded guilty.
Defence lawyers pleaded for leniency on Monday, saying their clients were naive and vulnerable, lured by the promise of quick money and a vacation to Hong Kong.
Vo's lawyer, John McNamara, said recruiters had offered Vo six-thousand Australian Dollars (4,300 US Dollars) and spending money to swallow 30 condoms filled with heroin in Hong Kong and return to Australia.
Rachel Ann Diaz's lawyer Peter Callaghan said his client had a troubled childhood, suffering sexual assault and rape by the age of 12.
Tran's lawyer, David Boyton, said his client was prone to this sort of offence because he lost his money playing slot machines.
The trio were arrested on April 12, 2005, in a hotel room with 701 grammes (24.5 ounces) of heroin stuffed into condoms, prosecutors said.
They planned to swallow the condoms and act as drug mules'' smuggling the narcotics to Sydney, according to prosecutors.
The heroin had a street value of 325-thousand Hong Kong Dollars, (40-thousand US Dollars), prosecutors said.
Deputy High Court Judge Kim Longley was due to announce his sentence later on Monday afternoon.
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LegCo swansong held (18.7.2011)
More than 100 legislators past and present gathered today to bid farewell to the Legislative Council Building, and unearth a time capsule buried 14 years ago. The building will be taken over by the Court of Final Appeal when the Legislative Council moves to a new facility at the Tamar site. The Legislative Council Building was built in 1900 and used as the Supreme Court until LegCo took up residence in 1985. ( )
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China's Supreme People's Court had its work report rejected by one out of five delegates at the NPC, signaling growing concerns over worsening rule of law under the Chinese regime.
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A recent poll by Hong Kong's South China Morning Post finds that nine out of ten locals would choose to revert back to British rule.
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A group of workers was seen Thursday morning cleaning two iconic lion statues outside HSBC headquarters in Hong Kong’s Central business district. Long viewed as the symbol of the city’s financial strength and stability, the statues were defaced by radicals during a New Year rally. This is the second time the statues have been defaced since their creation in 1935.
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0:04:33 - A01 - Edinburgh Place
0:08:12 - A02 - Statue Square
0:09:18 - A03 - The Cenotaph
0:11:23 - A04 - Old Hong Kong Club Building
0:19:14 - A05 - Old Supreme Court (Court of Final Appeal)
0:13:58 - A06 - Old Site of Hong Kong Cricket Club
0:17:29 - A07 - Old Site of Murray House
0:17:53 - A08 - Old Site of Murray Parade Ground
0:22:18 - A09 - Old Site of First City Hall
0:28:17 - A10 - Former French Mission Building
0:29:36 - A11 - St. John's Cathedral
0:40:50 - B12 - Flagstaff House (Museum of Tea Ware)
0:47:22 - B13 - Rawlinson House (Cotton Tree Drive Marriage Registry)
0:52:13 - B14 - Cassels Block (Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre)
0:56:50 - B15 - North and West Blocks of St. Joseph's College
0:56:20 - B16 - 28 Kennedy Road (Office of Former Chief Executives of the HKSAR)
1:04:11 - B17 - First Church of Christ Scientist Hong Kong
1:05:33 - B18 - St. Paul’s Co-educational College
1:14:47 - B19 - Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens
1:20:57 - B20 - Main Building of The Helena May
1:25:53 - B21 - Garden Road Peak Tram Lower Terminus
1:40:01 - C22 - Government House
1:49:07 - C23 - Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
1:57:04 - C24 - Victoria Prison
2:04:52 - C25 - Former Central Magistracy
2:02:31 - C26 - Central Police Station
2:10:57 - C27 - Original Site of Xing Yan Lou Western Restaurant
2:12:46 - C28 - Original Site of the Zhongguo Ri Bao (China Daily) Office
2:14:59 - C29 - Commemorative Plaque for Dr Jose Rizal
2:16:04 - C30 - Original Site of He Ji Zhan
2:17:16 - C31 - Old Dairy Farm Building (Foreign Correspondents' Club & Fringe Club)
2:25:10 - C32 - Bishop's House
2:20:25 - C33 - St. Paul's Church
2:26:28 - C34 - Duddell Street Steps and Gas Lamps
2:32:21 - C35 - Original Site of the Pedder Street Clock Tower
2:33:32 - C36 - Pedder Building
2:34:11 - C37 - Commemorative Plaque for the Original Waterfront in 1841
2:38:37 - C38 - Commemorative Plaque for the Praya Reclamation of 1843-1865
2:39:31 - C39 Commemorative Plaque for the Praya Reclamation of 1890-1904
2:40:13 - C40 - Original Site of the General Post Office
WRAP Court rejects appeal of HK reporter jailed for spying ADDS reax
SHOTLIST
1. Exterior, Supreme Court as police vans go by with lights on
2. Close up, Ching Cheong's elder brother Ching Hai walking to courthouse surrounded by Hong Kong press
3. Hai walking in door through security
4. Exterior, family members walking to main courthouse door, pull out to wide exterior of building with emblem
5. Close up, sign City of Beijing, Supreme People's Court
6. Medium, family members walking out of courthouse
7. Younger brother Ching Hong handing out papers to press
8. SOUNDBITE (English), Ching Hong, younger brother of jailed journalist Ching Cheong:
Legally this is the final result, but of course we will try our best to see... the final aim is to see if he will come out safe and as soon as possible.
9. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese): Ching Hai, older brother of jailed journalist Ching Cheong:
Because we read the results of the first trial we found inaccuracies and mistakes. If this was in a legal system like Hong Kong's, this would not have been upheld.
10. Family walking away from courthouse, pan up to courthouse and emblem of the government.
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FILE: Singapore - 1 June 2005
11. Various exteriors of Singapore Press Holdings building, publishing group of Singapore Straits newspaper where Ching Cheong worked
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12. STILL of Ching Cheong, chief China correspondent for Singapore's The Straits Times newspaper, with his wife Mary Lau (17 Oct 2004)
13. STILL of Ching Cheong with wife Mary Lau (2004)
14. STILL of Ching Cheong with wife Mary Lau (3 April 2005)
15. STILL of Ching Cheong (2003)
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File, Singapore - 1 June 2005
16. Pan of newsroom
STORYLINE
A Chinese court on Friday rejected an appeal by a Hong Kong reporter jailed by mainland China on spying charges, his brother said.
Ching Cheong, a correspondent for Singapore's The Straits Times newspaper, was sentenced to five years' in jail in August on charges of spying for Taiwan.
The Beijing High Court rejected his appeal after a 30-minute hearing, said his younger brother Ching Hong, who was present in the courtroom.
Ching was detained during a visit to the southern city of Guangzhou in April 2005 and stood trial in a one-day proceeding.
The state-run Xinhua News Agency said he was convicted of selling unspecified state secrets and intelligence to an unnamed Taiwanese foundation, which it said was a front for Taiwanese espionage activities against the mainland.
Ching's supporters insist he is innocent and say there is no real evidence to prove the charge of spying.
Journalists in Hong Kong have staged protests demanding Ching's release and alleging he was targeted for political reasons.
Ching's younger brother Ching Hai said he was disappointed and would be conferring with the family's lawyer to see what other recourse his brother has.
Because we read the results of the first trial we found inaccuracies and mistakes. If this was in a legal system like Hong Kong's, this would not have been upheld. he said.
The decision follows efforts by the mainland government to tighten controls on the media even though other parts of society are rapidly opening up. Dozens of reporters and Internet essayists have been jailed, often on charges of violating China's vague secrecy and security laws.
In August, New York Times researcher Zhao Yan was cleared of charges that he leaked state secrets to foreigners, but convicted on unrelated charges of fraud and sentenced to three years in prison.
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China's panda diplomacy, explained
China's best diplomats are the ones that sit around and eat bamboo all day.
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China has given pandas to foreign powers long before the 20th century, but the most current iteration of panda diplomacy began in the 1950s with its gifting of Ping Ping and An An to the Soviet Union. Today, pandas are no longer gifted, but rather loaned to other countries, particularly those with which China wants to develop and strengthen relations. Not only are pandas an iconic symbol of China and its culture, they also act as diplomats in China’s global political strategy.
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