21 August 2014 | South China Morning Post
Central government officials privately admit white paper should have been better prepared and want to soften the tone, say sources
Category Archives: White Paper
Law Society president Ambrose Lam resigns after historic no-confidence vote
Joyce Ng | 19 August 2014 | South China Morning Post
Lam had said Beijing’s controversial white paper on Hong Kong was a ‘positive document’ and called Communist Party ‘great’
Law Society elects Stephen Hung as president as Ambrose Lam resigns
Joyce Ng | 19 August 2014 | South China Morning Post
Ambrose Lam confirms he will step down after vote of no confidence
Law Society meets to decide president Ambrose Lam’s fate
Joyce Ng, Patsy Moy | 19 August 2014 | South China Morning Post
The Law Society’s council meets today to decide the fate of its president, with two members suggesting he should resign.
Foreign helpers roped in for anti-Occupy Central cause
18 August 2014 | EJ Insight
Anti-Occupy Central organizers are eyeing foreign domestic helpers to help them fulfill their political agenda, some reports said.
The Association of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Hong Kong said some employers asked domestic helpers for their Hong Kong identity card, saying that they needed it to file a claim, Next Plus reported Monday.
Hong Kong chief justice weighs in for the first time on Beijing white paper
Tony Cheung | 16 August 2014 | South China Morning Post
Chief justice weighs into debate on Beijing’s controversial white paper, telling conference that independence is protected by Basic Law
Ex-Judge Rejects China Patriotism Call for Hong Kong Courts
Jill Mao, Natasha Khan | 15 August 2014 | Bloomberg
Hong Kong’s former top judge said the city needs to defend the independence of the judiciary after a Chinese policy paper stoked concerns of heightened influence by the government in Beijing.
The white paper issued by the Chinese government in June saying judges should be patriotic raised “widespread concerns,” Andrew Li, the former chief justice of the Court of Final Appeal, said today in a commentary in the South China Morning Post.
Solicitors thrash United Front
15 August 2014 | Big Lychee
The week closes on a bright note in the form of a Law Society squabble most of us don’t really understand in deep detail, but basically: good triumphs over evil.
Not many of us spare much time thinking about solicitors. They’re the breed of lawyer who scrape a living doing photocopying – or as they call it, ‘conveyancing’. Triads, money-launderers and bankrupts depend on them to use paperwork and form-filling to make nastiness look legitimate or to issue veiled threats, they are not typically to the manor born, but unpolished and locally and relatively modestly educated sons of the upwardly mobile lower-middle. They tend to be short, shifty-looking and have hair and fingernail problems.
Beijing seen backing Lam over no-confidence vote
August 14 2014 | EJ Insight
Mainland judicial departments have reportedly contacted representatives of global law firms in Beijing and solicited their views on the no-confidence vote faced by Law Society of Hong Kong president Ambrose Lam, Apple Daily reported on Thursday.
Kevin Yam, a member of the Law Society’s constitutional and human rights committee who initiated the motion of no confidence, said the central government is trying to apply pressure on the local legal sector.
Solicitors vote to unseat Law Society president Ambrose Lam
Joyce Ng | 14 August 2014 | South China Morning Post
The Law Society yesterday passed a historic vote of no confidence in its president for his remarks backing Beijing’s recent white paper on Hong Kong.
A no-confidence motion in Ambrose Lam San-keung was passed by a wide margin, with 2,392 votes for and 1,478 against.
Solicitors under pressure as Law Society president vote approaches
Jeffie Lam | 11 August 2014 | South China Morning Post
Law Society chief’s backers fear defeat in confidence vote – but opponents are dubious
Hong Kong’s Silent March Against the “One Country Two Systems” White Paper
1 July 2014 | Human Rights in China
Parents’ white-paper petition ‘for next generation’
Johnny Tam | 26 June 2014 | South China Morning Post
A parents’ group has launched an online petition against the State Council’s white paper on Hong Kong, saying it breaks the promises that Beijing made in the Sino-British Joint Declaration and Basic Law.
Hong Kong’s lawyers must speak out on sensitive issues
Cliff Buddle | 25 June 2014 | South China Morning Post
Cliff Buddle says the legal community must continue to speak out on sensitive issues, such as the white paper, to help protect the rule of law
Beijing Growls at Hong Kong
25 June 2014 | New York Times
For the first time since the British handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, Beijing has unambiguously asserted its complete jurisdiction over Hong Kong.
A recent government paper reminded Hong Kong that whatever autonomy it has flows from the Chinese government and that the doctrine of “one country, two systems” implied in the original agreement allows Hong Kong to retain its capitalist system but does not confer political independence.
Next on China’s ‘My Way’ List: Hong Kong
Patrick Smith | 23 June 2014 | The Fiscal Times
Push is rapidly coming to shove between China and Hong Kong, which bills itself as the “World City.” If the world doesn’t sit up and take notice soon, the political future of the autonomous territory could be imperiled and things could end badly all around.
A degree of antagonism between the mainland and Hong Kong’s democracy advocates has been a feature of life in the territory since Britain handed its colony back to China in 1997 under a legally inscribed formula called “one country, two systems.” Hong Kong was designated a Special Administrative Region and guaranteed 50 years of autonomous self-government, including direct elections and universal suffrage.
Hong Kong white paper a boon for participation in Occupy Central
Gary Cheung | 23 June 2014 | South China Morning Post
Weeks after the Occupy Central movement decided to stage the vote on electoral reform, the civil disobedience movement was in a serious crisis.
Beijing’s white paper galvanises voters in Occupy Central’s 2017 election poll
Gary Cheung, Tony Cheung, Stuart Lau, Phila Siu | 22 June 2014 | South China Morning Post
As almost 700,000 vote in wake of white paper, mainland official calls vote unrepresentative
China’s sovereignty takes precedence over Hong Kong, ex-official Chen Zuoer says
Gary Cheung | 22 June 2014 | South China Morning Post
The sovereignty and security of the nation take precedence over maintaining Hong Kong’s prosperity, a former top mainland official in charge of the city’s affairs said.
Solicitors move for vote of no confidence in Lam over white paper statements
Jeffie Lam, Julie Chu | 21 June 2014 | South China Morning Post
More than 240 solicitors have condemned Law Society president Ambrose Lam San-keung for endorsing Beijing’s contentious white paper, which sparked public concern over the independence of the city’s judiciary.
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