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The Hong Kong government has announced plans to amend several legislations to restrict the appointment of its legal officers to only lawyers who were qualified locally. There was no need for Hong Kong to recruit practitioners admitted in the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and other jurisdictions to serve as the government’s legal officers, the Department of Justice (DoJ) told a legislative panel on Monday. The proposal to revise the appointment qualification for legal officers would involve amending the Bankruptcy Ordinance, the Legal Officers Ordinance, the Legal Aid Ordinance and the Dir...
Hong Kong Free Press
A government taskforce behind the fast-tracked legislation of Hong Kong’s homegrown security law will receive an award for completing the “historical mission,” Chief Executive John Lee has said. Hong Kong passed the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, known locally as Article 23, in March, weeks after it was introduced to the public with a one-month consultation period. During a regular press briefing on Tuesday, Lee said the special taskforce behind the legislation, which consisted of the Department of Justice, the Security Bureau, and the police, would be awarded for their “heroic work...
Hong Kong Free Press
Hong Kong’s Department of Justice has announced it intends to appeal the acquittal of two pro-democracy figures, who were found not guilty of conspiring to commit conspiracy over their roles in an unofficial primary election in July 2020. Lawrence Lau and Lee Yue-shun were acquitted by a panel of three High Court judges on Thursday morning – becoming the first two people tried under the Beijing-imposed security law to be cleared of their charges. Director of Public Prosecutions Maggie Yang on Thursday afternoon said that she had received instruction from Secretary for Justice Paul Lam that the...
Hong Kong Free Press
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