如果还没读过的话,建议先找An Introduction to the Hong Kong Legal System (Peter Welsey Smith),书是老了些,写得不错。或者Introduction to Law in the Hong Kong SAR(Lan Dobinson, Derek Roebuck),练练英文之余,对香港法律体系也多了解一下。
看看这段Lord Denning在Miller v Jackson开头写的著名判词,简直有点散文的感觉:
“In summertime village cricket is the delight of everyone. Nearly every village has its own cricket field where the young men play and the old men watch. In the village of Lintz in County Durham they have their own ground, where they have played these last 70 years. They tend it well. The wicket area is well rolled and mown. The outfield is kept short. It has a good club house for the players and seats for the onlookers. The village team play there on Saturdays and Sundays. They belong to a league, competing with the neighbouring villages. On other evenings after work they practise while the light lasts. Yet now after these 70 years a judge of the High Court has ordered that they must not play there any more...”