Gunboat Justice – Forthcoming, but here’s a Taster

Doug Clarke is a lawyering type of chap, ex of this parish up in Shanghai for many years and now resident down in the former Crown Colony to the south and barristering away. He’s also found time to write a history of the foreign and mixed court system in Shanghai and China in the treaty port era. It’s forthcoming from Earnshaw Books and entitled Gunboat Justice. I’ve seen snatches and Doug has dug up some great stories and some serious analysis of the system – we await with baited breath. In the meantime, as a taster, he’s just published an essay raising some of the historical issues around the Supreme Court in Hong Kong and the treaty port courts on the website of the Hong Kong Lawyer – I realise many of you will not be regular readers of Hong Kong Lawyer, so here‘s the link!

Hong Kong’s “old Supreme Court Building” facing Statue Square circa 1915