Jerome Cohen writes….
- Hong Kong’s courts are still clinging to their commitment to the rule of law and their role in assuring protection of individual rights against arbitrary state action, but the future is bleak
No two legal systems could be more different than Hong Kong’s common law system, inherited from British colonialism, and China’s Leninist communist system, imported from Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union.
and their role in assuring government under law and protection of individual rights against arbitrary state action.
Mainland courts, while operating under a system that claims to be implementing “a socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics”, are actually following Marxist theory and Soviet practice by placing law under government and the Communist Party, and serving as instruments of dictatorial control and repression of individual rights.
REad his full op-ed at https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3118776/how-long-can-hong-kong-courts-resist-pressure-act-more-those
