To complicated it further, Hong Kong borrows
from other common law jurisdictions when necessary.
For example, works on American corporate law are classed under the number KF 1414, while works
from other common law jurisdictions are classed under KF 1415, with an added jurisdictional cutter number of ZA2 for Canada, ZC2 for Great Britain, ZD2 for Australia, etc..
Not exact matches
According to the court's website, it is the court itself that invites judges
from other common -
law jurisdictions...
Unlike the position in most civil
law and many
other common law jurisdictions, the arbitration culture in Australia is far
from mature.
There are occasions, however, where legislatures «steal»
laws from other jurisdictions, in which case they often look to each
other for early development of
common law on those
laws.
Lost, apparently, are citations to cases
from other Canadian
jurisdictions that address issues of principle, and thereby lost also is the development of a Canadian
common law.
For
common law system
jurisdictions, the abovementioned differences may create a gap for parties
from different
jurisdictions to understand each
other.
The readers of this blog know (and Chinese judicial reformers know clearly), the structure of the Chinese courts is quite different
from those in
other jurisdictions, whether civil or
common law systems.
Much of the current attention given to how the Canadian legal profession is regulated is a result of moves away
from lawyer self - regulation in
other common law jurisdictions.
Aside
from the usual local requirements, such as any employment legislation, dispute resolution requirement or governing
law (for example where the services will be delivered in both
common law and civil
law jurisdictions), there are
other issues that must be reviewed in preparing local agreements.
A somewhat quixotic mix of
law, social policy and public administration, this approach emigrated to Canada (and
other common law jurisdictions)
from its Scandinavian homeland and natural civil
law milieu in the 1960s and 1970s.
The «Ban the Box»
laws that are popping up in state and local
jurisdictions across the country are quite different
from each
other, but they have a
common core in seeking to boost employment among ex-offenders.