Hong Kong’s judiciary, despite the many challenges it faces, is rightly regarded as one of the city’s greatest assets. It is easy to forget that only a few years before Hong Kong’s return to China in 1997, it was seen as hopelessly outdated, inefficient, inaccessible and resistant to change. Ti-liang Yang, who died on Saturday at the age of 93, served as chief justice between 1988 and 1996. He was the first ethnic-Chinese head of the judiciary. Read More...