Collections

The total collection of the Judiciary Library is about 160,000 volumes basically of common law materials housed mainly in the High Court Library, Court of Final Appeal Library and District Court Library. Many smaller collections are located in the chambers, magistracies and tribunals. Approximately 52,000 volumes of books and serials are located in the High Court Library and about 7,000 volumes are in each of the other two libraries at the Court of Final Appeal and the District Court. Most of the materials in the collection are in English.

Judgments

In addition, the High Court Library also has a sizeable invaluable collection of some 40,000 unreported judgments of Hong Kong, which went back to 1946.

Chinese Language Materials and Electronic Materials

There is a collection of about 2,200 volumes of Chinese language materials, which is still expanding. The Library has a number of CD-ROM items which are accessible by library patrons.

Serials Collection

Over two thirds of the book stock are in serials comprising case law reports, statutes, legislation, other government official documents and journals primarily of Hong Kong, the People's Republic of China, U.K. and selectively of Australia, Canada and other common law countries. The Hong Kong materials are quite complete. The U.K. materials are extensive. The collection is, however, growing and would include new specialized case law reports and periodicals. There are approximately 800 serial titles on subscription. About half of these are loose-leaf items.