Rule of Law

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Rule of law refers to the influence and authority of law within society. There is equality before the law, or we can say every citizen is subject to the law. Also everyone must act in accordance with the law even government. The law must be publicly announced and potential applications, and have generality, equality and certainty characteristics. Rule of law also implies independent Judiciary, which means the judiciary is no affected by governments. It is important to the idea of separation of powers. Nowadays lots of country applied the rule of law for justice. We start form the most familiar city, Hong Kong. By department and Justice in Hong Kong “The rule of law refers to some of the fundamental principles of law that govern the way in which power is exercised in Hong Kong. Its principal meaning is that the power of the government and all of its servants shall be derived from law as expressed in legislation and the judicial decisions made by independent courts.” In Hong Kong’s criminal and justice system using different kinds of law, and the legal framework is based on the English common law. The sources of law are Basic Law, National Law, Common Law, Statute Law, Chinese Customary Law and International Law. These sources of law all follow the rule of law. Basic law all citizens can get clear information form the government, and the whole justice system is main base on basic law. It ensures the legal system in the Hong Kong will keep giving effect to the rule of law. And the judiciary in Hong Kong is independent. There are 9 types of courts of justice in Hong. All those courts are independent from government. Also Hong Kong has Department of Justice, which responsible for legal work and headed by the Secretary for Justice, who response for the prosecution of all offences in the HKSAR. That is how rule of law operate in Hong Kong. Now we move to the People’s
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