December 4, 1995 (October 13), seeing in the Hong Kong court for the first time the use of Chinese in the adjudication of cases.

1995, the High Court of Hong Kong to the Chinese for the first time trial of a property dispute. Both parties to not identify in English, they did not hire a lawyer for all Chinese to the evidence submitted by the court, the High Court after it was decided to use the Chinese trial, creating a precedent for the use of Chinese in the adjudication of cases in Hong Kong court. (History TodayOnHistory.com)
a long time, the courts of Hong Kong has been only use English trial cases. Article 9 of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China "provisions of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the executive, legislature and judiciary, in addition to Chinese, but also the use of English, English is the official language.