Committee, comprising legal figures and those from outside the judiciary, must ensure that judges, while held accountable, are free to get on with delivering justice.
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To be internationally competitive, the Hong Kong legal profession needs talent and to attract it, we need to reward it. Why should we stand in the way of awarding exemplary court advocates the title of senior counsel simply because they do not wear wigs?
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Pro-democracy activists Helena Wong Pik-wan (2nd left) and Jimmy Sham (2nd right) speak to the media as they arrive to report to the police station over national security law charges, in Hong Kong February 28, 2021. Reuters pic
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HONG KONG, Feb 28 Forty-seven Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigners and activists were charged today with conspiracy to commit subversion in the largest single crackdown on the opposition under a China-imposed national security law.
Among them was Sam Cheung, a 27-year-old activist and a participant in an unofficial primary election last summer, who was charged after reporting to a local police station.
National security law: Hong Kong paralegal charged alongside Jimmy Lai sues police for return of property seized during search of home
Chan Tsz-wah asks High Court to order return of materials which he says come under protection of professional privilege
The 29-year-old became the fifth person prosecuted under the Beijing-imposed legislation with his arrest in a low-profile operation on February