Firstly .. they lost this battle a long time ago to Singapore.
Secondly .. destroying rule of law isn’t going to help make you a legal center, Mr Lee.
He is a complete fantasist
SCMP reports
- City leader also uses second ‘interactive exchange’ at Legco to promote cultivating more legal talent to speed up nation’s development into ‘law-based’ society
- ‘Hong Kong should take advantage of its existing strengths to develop into a base for training international legal talent for both China and foreign countries,’ he says
Hong Kong should consolidate its status as a regional arbitration hub by establishing itself as a training centre of “international legal talent” for both mainland China and foreign countries, the city’s leader has said.
Cultivating more legal talent would also accelerate the nation’s development as a “law-based” society, an alternative phrase for the rule of law used in a report from the 20th Communist Party congress, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu on Thursday said.
Floating the proposal during his second “interactive exchange” with the Legislative Council, Lee said the city’s advantages included a strong base of well-educated legal practitioners and a globally recognised common law system.
“Hong Kong should take advantage of its existing strengths to develop into a base for training international legal talent for both mainland China and foreign countries, as well as to strengthen its position as a service centre for international legal and dispute resolution in the Asia-Pacific region,” he said.
Read more doublespeak here..
