HONG KONG - A Hong Kong court on Friday (May 19) dismissed an attempt by jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai to challenge a decision by security officials to effectively bar his British lawyer from representing him in a landmark national security trial. Lai's legal team filed a judicial review after Hong Kong's National Security Committee (NSC), headed by senior Hong...
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, looks on as he leaves the Court of Final Appeal by prison van, in Hong Kong, China, Feb 1, 2021.HONG KONG - A Hong Kong court on Friday dismissed an attempt by jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai to challenge a decision by security officials to effectively bar his British lawyer from representing him in a landmark national security trial.
The rejection of Lai's legal challenge comes after the Hong Kong legislature, on May 10, passed a bill giving the city's leader the discretionary power to bar foreign lawyers from national security cases, after a similar ruling by China's top legislative body in December. "The duties and functions of the NSC ... are matters well beyond the ... courts' institutional capacity," Poon said.
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