Abstract
The constitutional arrangements for the post-1997 legal order in Hong Kong expressly contemplate some limited meshing of the Hong Kong and Chinese legal systems. Whether the meshing process goes so far and no further or ventures beyond what is now planned depends on the prospects of achieving the promised “high degree of autonomy” for Hong Kong and of maintaining the Basic Law as a meaningful constitution for the territory in the post-1997 period. Such prospects can be reviewed but not predicted. In this article, some of the various issues are surveyed, and it is concluded that, absent political catastrophe, the Basic Law can be made to work if the judges, to whom is guaranteed security of tenure, determine to defend it.
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