HONG KONG - Hong Kong’s legislature passed a legal amendment on Wednesday to prevent foreign lawyers from working on national security cases, a restriction critics say will undermine fair trials and the right of defendants to choose their lawyers.
The December ruling by China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee followed an appeal to it by city leader John Lee after the city’s Department of Justice had tried unsuccessfully to block British lawyer Timothy Owen from defending media tycoon and China critic Jimmy Lai. Defending the amendment, Secretary for Justice Paul Lam told the city’s Legislative Council that Hong Kong had more than 100 senior counsels and 1,500 barristers, so defendants could choose suitable legal representatives among them.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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