Land Administration and Practice in Hong Kong
Land Administration and Practice in Hong Kong

Author: Roger Nissim

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9789622098480

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Hong Kong is frequently acclaimed as being the most open and business user-friendly environment in the world. However, it is often forgotten or overlooked that this paragon of capitalism is founded, and indeed underpinned, by a socialist leasehold land tenure system. As the government is landlord to virtually all land, it plays a pivotal role in the administration of this scarce and therefore valuable resource. The purpose of this book is to explain both the historical development and the current practice of land administration.Since publication of the book in 1998, it has been welcomed by students and practitioners of surveying, architecture, planning and law, and also by the wider business and financial community. In this second edition, the text has been thoroughly updated and should continue to be equally useful and popular.

Custom, Land and Livelihood in Rural South China
Custom, Land and Livelihood in Rural South China

Author: Patrick H. Hase

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 2013-04-01

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 9888139088

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Land was always at the centre of life in Hong Kong’s rural New Territories: it sustained livelihoods and lineages and, for some, was a route to power. Villagers managed their land according to customs that were often at odds with formal Chinese law. British rule, 1898—1997, added complications by assimilating traditional practices into a Western legal system. Custom, Land and Livelihood in Rural South China explores land ownership in the New Territories, analysing over a hundred surviving land deeds from the late Ch’ing Dynasty to recent times, which are transcribed in full and translated into English. Together with other sources collected by the author during 30 years of research, these deeds yield information on all aspects of traditional village life—from raising families and making a living to coping with intruders—and evoke a view of the world which, despite decades of urbanisation, still has resonance today.

Land Administration and Practice in Hong Kong, Third Edition
Land Administration and Practice in Hong Kong, Third Edition

Author: Roger Nissim

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 2011-12-01

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9888083805

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Although Hong Kong is an open and business-friendly environment, it has a socialist leasehold land tenure system. The government is landlord to virtually all land, so it plays a pivotal role in the administration of this scarce and therefore valuable resource. As land administration is governed by private contract law rather than legislation, it is constantly evolving with the courts handing down decisions on a regular basis. Government practice also has to respond to this, as well as to the community's concerns on how best land can be administered. As a result, regular updates of this book are required and this new Third Edition is fully up to date to serve its readers — students and practitioners of surveying, architecture, planning and law, and the wider business and financial community.

Land and the Ruling Class in Hong Kong
Land and the Ruling Class in Hong Kong

Author: Alice Poon

Publisher: Enrich Professional Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789814339100

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This book reveals an insider's view on how Hong Kong's land system, inherited from the British, has helped to create unrivalled wealth for the ruling class, how the lack of competition law has encouraged industrial and economic concentration in the same entities, and how these factors have given rise to a host of social and economic ills. The Chinese version has become the bestseller of non-fiction titles in Hong Kong in 2010.

Change in Use of Land
Change in Use of Land

Author: Lawrence Wai-chung Lai

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 2010-03-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9888028618

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Provides an account of the concept of the use and change in use of land, and an outline of the procedures for lease modifications and waivers, planning applications, reviews and appeals, and building applications and approvals. It also includes an overview of government enforcement against contravention of lease conditions, provisions of statutory town plans prepared under the Town Planning Ordinance, and provisions of the Buildings Ordinance -- Back cover.

Land Law
Land Law

Author: Ben|Hopkins McFarlane (Nicholas|Nield, Sarah)

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 1163

ISBN-13: 0198893248

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