Doug Clark published to China Lis Law over the weekend
As you will see he has strong opinions on the justice system, including these comments on the workings of then system in NSL cases:
From “Tinkering with Justice”:
“Those charged with offences under the National Security Law fall prey to a dystopian procedure that owes almost nothing to the due process which the liberal rule of law accords.
The right to be granted bail pending trial and to be judged by a jury of one’s fellow citizens have no place in this authoritarian pedagogy, indeed it reverses the fundamental precept that no-one is guilty until that has been proved.
Nevertheless, despite the notoriety attaching to the plastic gamut of offences under the NSL, they constitute a very slim slice of the justice system, the vast majority of which is unchanged.
In effect, NSL cases are confined within a criminal law vacuum.”
