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HKU Legal Expert Eric Cheung: Establishment of the National Security Law by the Central Government Annuls the 1 Country 2 Systems Model

The third session of the 13th National People's Congress begins tomorrow. The agenda of the session, set up by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress includes a motion that concerns the "establishment of the legal system and implementation mechanism for the maintenance of national security in the HKSAR".

Eric CHEUNG Tat Ming, solicitor and Principal Lecturer and Director of Clinical Legal Education in the Department of Law in the University of Hong Kong, believes that the motion covers laws that would be covered by the Basic Law Article 23 were it to be established. Yet Article 23 clearly states that the Hong Kong is to "enact laws on its own" regarding such matters.

Cheung stated that the passing of said motion would indicate the Central Government's little-remaining patience, as it would not wait for Hong Kong to enact its own laws or declare that the Hong Kong Government violated the constitution, and instead acted to give legislative power to itself to enact laws on their own.

Cheung believes that, the Central Government is enacting a tailor-made law designed for the situation in Hong Kong under the guise of enforcing a nationwide law through the use of Appendix 3 of the Basic Law, which indicates that the Central Government is legislating laws on Hong Kong's behalf. This act, he believes, would utterly violate the Basic Law, and annul the One Country Two Systems model.

Source: RTHK #May21
Image: RTHK; SCMP

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Outspoken Legal Scholar #EricCheung resigned from Hong Kong Law Society, claiming it is unrelated to the Pro-Beijing Camp's Takeover in Re-Election

Source: Stand News #Aug30

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Outspoken Legal Scholar #EricCheung resigned from Hong Kong Law Society, claiming it is unrelated to the Pro-Beijing Camp's Takeover in Re-Election

Eric Tat-ming Cheung, the Principle Lecturer of the Department of Law of the University of Hong Kong (#HKU), announced on FaceBook on August 30, 2021 that he would resign from the position of the council member of the Law Society of Hong Kong.

Cheung said that he had disclosed to some people earlier that he would resign no matter how the result of the Law Society re-election goes.

Cheung hoped that he could focus on promoting voluntary legal services, as well as balancing life and accompanying his family.

Cheung also pointed out that the Law Society would continue to have members from different backgrounds and hold various ideologies, wishing them to uphold integrity, political neutrality and professionalism.

Earlier, the Law Society of Hong Kong re-elected 5 seats among 20 council members, resulting in a takeover by the pro-Beijing camp including Careen Wong Hau-yan in all the 5 seats.

Source: Stand News #Aug30

https://www.thestandnews.com/politics/%E5%BC%B5%E9%81%94%E6%98%8E%E8%BE%AD%E4%BB%BB%E5%BE%8B%E5%B8%AB%E6%9C%83%E7%90%86%E4%BA%8B-%E7%A8%B1%E7%82%BA%E5%B9%B3%E8%A1%A1%E7%94%9F%E6%B4%BB%E5%8F%8A%E9%99%AA%E4%BC%B4%E5%AE%B6%E4%BA%BA-%E7%84%A1%E9%97%9C%E6%94%B9%E9%81%B8%E7%B5%90%E6%9E%9C

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