1. This website is produced and maintained by the Judiciary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. To view this website, the following are needed :
   
   For Microsoft Windows Users
   (a) Windows 98 (or newer) ;
   (b) Internet Explorer 5.5 (or newer) / Firefox 0.9x (or newer) / Maxthon 1.0 (or newer) / Mozilla 1.6 (or newer) / Netscape 7.x (or newer); and
   (c) Suggested screen resolution is 800x600 or 1024x768.
   
   For Lunix Users
   (a) Fedora Core 2 / Mandrakelinux 10.0 (or newer); and
   (b) Firefox 0.9x (or newer) / Mozilla 1.6 (or newer) / Netscape 7.x (or newer).
   
   For Apple Computer Users
   Please browse using Mozilla FireFox 2.0 for Mac OS X (or newer).
   
   
2. All pages of this website are in Unicode (UTF-8) encoding. In case the browser cannot recognize the encoding automatically (thus making the text illegible), appropriate encoding should be selected to display the text : point the mouse to the window/frame in question and select Unicode (UTF-8) from the browser menu (usually in the View-Encoding sub-menu).
   
   
3. To view the most updated version of a web page, it is sometimes necessary to refresh/reload the page in question (e.g. by selecting View-Refresh from the Internet Explorer menu or pressing<Ctrl><F5>). If the above doesn't work, try clearing the cache (e.g. by selecting Tools-Internet Options from the Internet Explorer menu, click the Temporary Internet files-Delete files button on the General tab in the pop-up dialogue box, and restart Internet Explorer).
   
   
4. "Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set" is required for viewing some of the Chinese characters.
   
   
5. Adobe Reader is required for viewing and printing the Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. To download the latest version of Adobe Reader, please click . Installation of the appropriate Chinese font packs is required for old versions Adobe Reader in opening PDF documents containing Chinese characters. Please click here for the details.
   
   
6. Microsoft Word 2000 (or newer version) is required for viewing, filling-in and printing the MS Word documents.