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Tales from No. 9 Ice House Street /

Patrick Yu takes up his story as he returns to Hong Kong to become the first Chinese Crown Counsel.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yu, Patrick Shuk-siu
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, Ã2002.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Reminiscences of a crown counsel
  • The start of a new life
  • Room 404, No. 9 Ice House Street
  • More selections from album of memories
  • Room 711B: the last episode
  • The case of Law Or and the Misreported Abortion Triel
  • The case of the American gangster who bribed the jury to convict him
  • The case of the Queen's Counsel who was a gentleman
  • the case of the murder trial without Corpus Delecti (meaning dead body)
  • The case of the eye-blinking barrister
  • The case of the young man who impersonated a police officer
  • The case of the twelve million cheques
  • The case of the ruptured kidney
  • The case of the defendant with high cheekbones
  • The case of the foreign litigant who wisely refrained from bribing the trial judge
  • The case of the solicitor who was convicted of an offence not known to law
  • The case of the court interpreter who loved to show off his knowledge of English
  • Index.