传统与新秩序:“一国两制”下的香港普通法

Tradition and the New Order: Development of Common Law under One Country,Two Systems

香港《基本法》保留了原有普通法传统,维持了香港法律制度的延续性。香港回归后,香港《基本法》构成香港的宪制基础,法院在适用《基本法》的过程中突破了原有普通法的限制,发展了具有香港特色的普通法。在法律解释的方法论层面,终审法院运用目的解释方法,赋予其权利宽松解释与限制狭义解释的内涵,在传统的方法论框架下,适用新秩序下的宪制文件。

Hong Kong Basic Law maintains the tradition of common law and then ensures the continuity of legal system in Hong Kong.After the transition,the Basic Law provides a new constitutional order of the SAR,within which the courts breaks the limitation of the previous jurisdiction in the constitutional sense and develops the Hong Kong common law.In applying the Basic Law,the courts take the purposive approach,interpreting the rights with a generous approach and narrowly interpreting the restriction on the rights.