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similar principles in Chen Li Hung and Another v Ting Lei Miao and
Others [2000] 3 HKCFAR 9, relying on:
“… the passage in Lord Wilberforce’s speech in Carl Zeiss
Stiftung v. Rayner & Keeler Ltd (Authority to Insitute
Proceedings: Issue Estoppel [1967] 1 AC 853 at p.954 C-E
where he famously said:
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‘In the United States some glimmerings can be found of
the idea that non-recognition cannot be pressed to its
ultimate logical limit, and that where private rights, or acts
of everyday occurrence, or perfunctory acts of
administration are concerned (the scope of these exceptions
has never been precisely defined) the courts may, in the
interests of justice and common sense, where no
consideration of public policy to the contrary has to prevail,
give recognition to the actual facts or realities found to
exist in the territory in question. These ideas began to take
shape on the termination of the Civil War (see United
States v. Insurance Companies (1875) 89 US 99), and have
been developed and reformulated, admittedly as no more
than dicta, but dicta by judges of high authority, in later
cases.’” per Bokhary PJ at page 17J.
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62.
One common feature of the “state necessity doctrine” is that:
“… the laws saved by the application of the doctrine not impair
the rights of the citizens guaranteed by the constitution.”
page 31.
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We recognise, as was recognised in the Manitoba Language
case, that this feature of the doctrine of state necessity is not satisfied in the
present case. We agree with the statement in the Manitoba Language case
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at 31 that:
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“… Nonetheless, the necessity cases on insurrectionary
governments illustrate the more general proposition that
temporary effect can be given to invalid laws where this is
necessary to preserve the rule of law.”
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