Hong Kong Passes Law Barring Foreign Lawyers From Security Cases
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Hong Kong legislators have granted the city’s leader the power to veto foreign lawyers from national security cases, which will put a decision handed down from Beijing last year onto the finance hub’s law books.
The city’s courts will have to obtain a certificate from the chief executive, John Lee, in order to allow a foreign lawyer to participate in such a case under the Legal Practitioners Bill, which was amended by the opposition-free legislature on Wednesday. The bill now heads to Lee’s desk for signing.