The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective



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The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective by Rosalind Dixon (editor), Adrienne Stone (editor) (z-lib.org)

7.5.4.  Swinging the Pendulum even Further?

Do these cases foreshadow a reversal of the liberal trend towards treatment of 

fundamental rights? The original conception of separation of powers that the 

Government is to abide by law has gradually given way to another concep-

tion of separation of powers that the courts should defer to the Legislature or 

80 

Ibid.


, para 60.

81 


Ho Ming Sai v. Director of Immigration [1994] 1 HKLR 21; Hau Ho Tak v. Director of Immigra-

tion [1994] 2 HKLRD 202.

82 


Fok Chun-wa v. Hospital Authority (2012) 15 HKCFAR 628.

83 


Vallejos v. Commissioner of Registration (2013) 16 HKCFAR 45.

84 


GA v. Director of Immigration (2014) 17 HKCFAR 27.


 

Behind the Text of the Basic Law 

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the Executive Government when it involves the constitutional competence 

of another branch of government. This is witnessed by the adoption of the 

manifestly without reasonable foundation test even in civil and political rights. 

In Kwok Cheuk Kin v. Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, the 

Court of Appeal reinterpreted the three-tier test adopted in Kong Yunming.

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In that case, the issue was whether a prohibition against a legislator who has 

resigned from the Legislature from taking part in the by-election for the vacant 

seat that was created by his resignation was a proportionate restriction on the 

right to vote. The restriction was a response to the attempt of some Legislators 

who tried to seek popular mandate and force an effective referendum on a 

controversial issue by resignation and then taking part in the by-election on a 

single-issue platform. While the right to stand for election is no doubt a civil 

and political right, the Court of Appeal held that:

Properly read, in Kong Yunming, Ribeiro PJ applied the proportionality 

test and he was only referring to the difference in the intensity and stand-

ard of review in the application of the third limb of that test (proportionate 

restriction).

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By reinterpreting the test in Kong Yunming, the Court of Appeal held that there 



was only one proportionality test and there was no separate minimal impair-

ment test, thereby eschewing the difference between civil and political rights 

and social and economic rights. It maintained the test of manifestly without 

reasonable foundations for social and economic rights, but then decided to 

adopt the same test, or at least a wide margin of appreciation in favour of the 

Government, for the right to stand for election on the ground that the issue 

was political in nature. The application for judicial review failed.

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The reluctance of the courts to intervene in the allocation of public 



resources has long been recognised in the common law and could be traced 

back to the doctrine of separation of powers. This attitude manifested itself in 

the treatment of social and economic rights in the Basic Law, when the Basic 

Law itself has not drawn any such distinction. It has led the courts to develop 

a different notion of proportionality test, namely a test of manifestly without 

reasonable foundations, and the test was then extended even to the right to 

stand for election on the ground that the issue was political. The doctrine of 

separation of powers is not explicit, but it is certainly in operation.

85 

[2015] 5 HKLRD 881.



86 

Para 28.


87 

The Court of Appeal has refused to grant leave to appeal to the Court of Final Appeal. The 

applicant is currently applying for leave to appeal from the Court of Final Appeal.



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