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As it grew from the world’s manufacturing hub to a global superpower, it also saw pollution rear its ugly head 大國，污染問題亦四處冒起。 within and without. 3月10日，全國人民代表大會常務委員會重新討論如 On 10 March, the Standing Committee of China’s National 何修改國家的《環境保護法》，而今期其中一篇專題 People’s Congress renewed discussions about how to amend 正是就中國在環境集體訴訟方面的發展進行分析。令 China’s Environmental Protection Law, and in this issue, we 人意外的是，中國很早已引入集體訴訟機制，而且架 feature an analysis of where the country lies with regard to environmental class-action litigation. In what may be a 構(至少在字面上)與美國採用的模式相似，但卻極少 surprise to many, China is an early adopter of class-action 予以執行。詳情可參閱內文。(詳見第53頁) litigation, the structure of which, on paper at least, is similar in parts to the US model. This has however, been rarely put in 此外，今期我們亦載有新《公司條例》系列的第二部 practice. Read on to find out (pg. 50). 分(詳見第48頁)，以及《刑事訴訟程序條例》例外罪 Elsewhere in these pages, we also have the second of a series of 行報告(詳見第40頁)。這兩篇文章分別由公司註冊處 articles on the new Companies Ordinance (pg. 44), and a report 處長及法律改革委員會秘書長執筆，絕對可靠。另 on excepted offences within the Criminal Procedure Ordinance 外，今期亦有一篇有趣的文章講述人們如何將資產從 (pg. 34). Authored respectively by the Registrar of Companies 內地轉移到港(詳見第81頁)。 and Secretary of the Law Reform Commission, these features highlight information that comes literally from the horse’s 就個人而言，今期是筆者最後一次為《香港律師》擔 mouth. There is also an interesting piece on the extent people 任編輯。我謹此鳴謝廣大讀者的支持和貢獻，亦非常 would reach to shift assets from the mainland to Hong Kong 感謝律師會和湯森路透，讓我有機會為這部深受尊崇 (pg.