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Heaps of documents, endless trials: the herculean workload of Hong Kong’s judges

My 18-year-old summer intern is very scared of me. She spent the entire week watching me sit in front of my computer, in complete silence, motionless except for the occasional click of the mouse to move to the next electronic document, and barely breathing. She told me this could not be further from what she imagined a barrister’s life to be. And there was one thing she was particularly puzzled by: why were there so many documents? There were, indeed, many documents – over 40,000 pages of them,...

Where: Hong Kong

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hong kong: 22.400, 114.110

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