Tag Archives: Jimmy Lai

Lawmaker Dominic Lee, who had been invited, calls decision a ‘pity’ and UK’s stance ‘hypocritical’. Source link

Secretary for Justice Paul Lam pledges to listen to ‘constructive opinions’ from legal profession and public before amendments made. Source link

Victor Dawes, re-elected as Bar Association chairman, says leadership wants to resume once-annual trips to Beijing for talks with officials Source link

Xia Baolong, director of the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, says Beijing has spelled out ways for Hong Kong to tackle issues arising from law’s implementation, while central government will help in tackling ‘intractable problems’. Source link

Committee for Safeguarding National Security says it supports a legal change ‘as soon as possible’. Source link

UK government minister for Asia Anne-Marie Trevelyan meets Jimmy Lai’s British legal team on Tuesday. Source link

On December 30, the country’s top legislative body ruled that Hong Kong’s leader and the city’s Committee for Safeguarding National Security should decide whether foreign lawyers would be permitted to take part in sensitive trials. The ruling marked the first time the standing committee had issued an interpretation of the …

Western countries will continue to try and discredit Hong Kong’s legal and judiciary systems, as well as ‘maliciously attack’ court judgments, Paul Lam says. Source link

Legal experts outline implications for city’s legal system after Beijing said chief executive and committee could decide on use of overseas lawyers. Source link

“It is still for the court to decide on other issues and the outcome of the case. The chief executive does not usurp the function of the court,” Lam wrote in an opinion piece for the Post. “The arrangement in this respect does not impair the independent judicial power of …