This article offers a comprehensive, legal-historical and comparative analysis of the respective modes of adjudication adopted in the People’s Republic of China and its Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, for as far as these make provision for the participation of ordinary citizens in the adjudication of criminal legal disputes. The focus on lay participation in the criminal legal proceedings of these two jurisdictions serves as an example of legal transplants from other “Western” jurisdictions to the “East” through conquest, colonisation, and legal reform. The critical analysis and review of these legal transplants as provided for here, not only elucidate the unique laws and legal systems of these two jurisdictions operating under the one country two systems principle, it also raises questions with reference to its distinct, contemporary Chinese context.
University of Lincoln, College of Social Science Research
Andra Le Roux-Kemp, University of Lincoln, Lincoln Law School