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This article reviews the development of recent environmental public interest litigation in Hong Kong. Despite substantive time and efforts spent on the litigation, the judicial challenges so far had limited success in yielding the desired outcome that environmental concern groups had hoped for. The reasons behind this are complex, which include litigation strategies, the state of Hong Kong law on environmental protection and sustainable development and the courts’ attitude towards public interest cases. This article studies the courts’ reasoning and decisions, with a view to evaluating the use of public interest litigation as a tool of environmental advocacy under the current constitutional and administrative regime in Hong Kong. It argues that, despite its constraints, public interest litigation is an important tool to channel the public’s views on the protection of the environment. It also recommends principles to be used in future environmental judicial review, including a purposive approach to interpreting environmental legislation and the reference to human rights in environmental issues. Finally, litigation is not the sole solution and it needs to be complemented with more up-to-date legislation and environmental standards.

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Zhe ben "Zhong wen qi kan da ci dian" shi yi zhong zi liao xing de gong ju shu. zhong xuan bu chu ban ju dui ben shu de bian zhuan gong zuo shi fen zhong shi, ceng duo ci kai hui jin xing yan tao. bian zhuan ben shu de mu di, jiu shi shi tu tong guo dui yi xie qi kan de jie shao, shi dU zhe zhi dao zai shi jie ge guo zhu yao shi Zhongguo zhe kuai tu di shang, ceng jing he zheng zai chu ban shen me yang de zhong wen qi kan, yi bian cha zhao suo xu yao de cai liao, tong shi, ye yi ci zuo wei jia qiang chu ban li lun yan jiu, zheng ce yan jiu, ye wu jian she he dui wu jian she de yi xiang yi ju.

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The Law Society of Hong Kong has issued a consultation paper soliciting views about the future of legal education in Hong Kong, including the possibility of introducing a common entrance exam to regulate entry into the legal profession. This consultation process has generated a great deal of debate throughout the profession about the desirability, or even the viability, of such an exam, and how it would fit into the current system of inculcating skills into law graduates in Hong Kong; namely, the Postgraduate Certificate of Laws Programme (‘PCLL’). Little headway has been achieved by the main stakeholders on this issue. This article will examine the merits of introducing a common entrance exam in Hong Kong, and how it may impact on the development of adequate skills by law graduates with particular reference to contemporary major reports that have been published in England and Wales and New Zealand, common law jurisdictions which employ similar modes of educational training for general entry into their legal professions. Finally, an alternate model of assessment for the PCLL will be canvassed which is similar in some respects to the current system used for those training for the Bar in England and Wales.