China – General
China – Hong Kong
Hong Kong court convicts former Stand News editors of sedition
A Hong Kong court on Thursday found two editors of the now-defunct Stand News media outlet guilty of conspiring to ...
Bloomberg Report: Hong Kong’s Legal Exodus Leaves Law Students With Few Places to Go… The legal industry in Hong Kong is growing at the slowest pace in a decade.
When Katie Lam was deciding what to study back in 2018, she thought that a Law degree would open the ...
Greater China Legal History Seminar Series – ‘Sir TL Yang – Hong Kong’s first Chinese Chief Justice’ by Prof. Li Chen (Online)
This presentation focuses on Sir TL Yang, the first ethnic Chinese Chief Justice of Hong Kong. It examines Yang’s lesser-known ...
Article: British Judges Are Carrying Water for China
Project Syndicate write Aug 15, 2024 Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement has just suffered another major blow. In a new ruling, ...
The 18th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association will be held in Hong Kong from 19 to 21 September 2024.
This'll be a bundle of laughs this year! Here's the blurb The 18th Annual Conference of the European China Law ...
Hong Kong backs top court decision to uphold 2019 demo convictions, says free assembly protected within limits
HKFP The Hong Kong government has expressed its endorsement of a top court decision which rejected a bid by prominent ...
China – Lawyers
Reed Smith Closing Beijing & Will Stay In Shanghai
Legal Business Online Pittsburgh-founded Reed Smith is planning to close its Beijing office, becoming the latest major U.S. law firm ...
China: Trial of rights lawyer Yu Wensheng held today
https://x.com/YaxueCao/status/1828612703729922049 ...
IAPL: Chinese dissidents face renewed government imprisonment threats
China has been intensifying pressure on some prominent dissidents in recent weeks, as local prosecutors decide whether to impose jail ...
IAPL: China: 9th Anniversary of 709 Crackdown on Rights Lawyers and Defenders: 10 Notable Events Over Past Year
This year, 2024, marks the 9th anniversary of the “709” crackdown on China’s human rights lawyers and rights activists that ...
China: Chinese lawyers accuse court officials of interfering in trial, slam ‘blatant sabotage’ of legal system
The SCMP reports Viral photo appears to show judicial officers and court staff instructing lower court judge via WeChat during ...
IAPL: In letter to China, UN expert condemns targeting of human rights lawyers
A newly-released confidential letter by a UN Special Rapporteur documents the disbarment of human rights lawyers in China and the ...
