Hong Kong is performing a tricky balancing act on same-sex marriage. While some legal practitioners push towards western liberal attitudes, other community representatives feel Hong Kong, as part of Asia, will naturally be more traditionally family-focused. But there are also legal issues at stake, with the judicial and executive branches of the government each needing…
A look back at two pivotal same-sex marriage cases in Hong Kong show a lack of evidence, and a worrying elevation of imported European views over this community's own values, says senior legal mind Henry Litton.
“Where Law Ends, Tyranny Begins”.
This sentence (carved in stone over the entrance to the Capitol Building in Des…
In Asia, marriages exist as unions between DNA men and DNA women: 48 out of the region’s 51 territories agree on this point.
But the issue is more complex if one of the individuals has changed sex.
Such a case wound its way through Hong Kong courts, creating some interesting issues of law,…
