CPD Course:
Legitimate Expectations:
All You Need to Know!

Dr. Stephen Thomson is an Associate Professor at the ANU College of Law, The Australian National University.  He previously worked in Hong Kong for a number of years at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and City University of Hong Kong.  Dr. Thomson is the author of the leading text 'Administrative Law in Hong Kong' (Cambridge University Press, 2018), a Legal Adviser to the Ombudsman of Hong Kong, a member of the Constitutional Affairs and Human Rights Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong, and an examiner on the Overseas Lawyers Qualification Examination.  He is also the General Editor of the Federal Law Review and was a Herbert Smith Freehills Visitor at the University of Cambridge.  His work has been used by courts, government and legislatures in Hong Kong, the UK and the US.  Dr. Thomson holds a PhD in constitutional and administrative law from the University of Edinburgh.

An accessible, step-by-step seminar on legitimate expectations from the author of the new, leading text on administrative law in Hong Kong (Stephen Thomson, 'Administrative Law in Hong Kong', Cambridge University Press, 2018).  Whether your work involves judicial review and you want to brush up on this essential ground of review, or you work in another area but want to strengthen your background legal knowledge in dealing with public bodies, this seminar makes a difficult subject easy to understand.  The seminar covers who can generate legitimate expectations, how they are generated, and how they are protected.  It also examines essential issues such as whether knowledge and reliance are required to establish breach of a legitimate expectation, and whether the representations of one government department can bind another department.  Come along and get to grips with this increasingly important area of law!

• What are legitimate expectations?
• Who can generate legitimate expectations?
• How are they generated?
• How are they protected?
• Specific vs. general classes of person relying on legitimate expectations
• Can the representations of one government department bind another department?
• Knowledge and reliance
• Conduct of the applicant