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Tap, President of the Law
Feter C.K. Chan, BLCC member, on Both were among the delegation
and 15 May respectively. Hong Kong lawyers received by Ji Pengfei, Director of HKMO, in Peking recently. The conversations touched on Ji's suggestion to
Hong Kong lawyers to prepare a list of HK laws that may be incompatible with the BL, as well as the Bill of Rights.
2.
Dorothy
on which
Yap confirmed that Ji did make the suggestion and Liu asked on the spot that Yap organise a committee she would wish to serve. Yap added that she had followed up on her suggestion since returning to As far as Yap was aware, there has been no response among HK lawyers to act on Ji's request.
not yet
HK.
3.
Chan would not be drawn on Chinese views on the question of
compatibility of Hong Kong laws with the Basic Law. When I referred to recent press reports over Ji's suggestion that HK lawyers should look into this question, he countered by referring to the proposal to set up a "One Country Two Systems" Committee, clearly in an attempt to fudge the issue.
whatever game
He was probably worried about giving away plan he and his colleagues might be issue, or simply wished to keep us
considering on this guessing.
4.
quite
might
Rights
On Chinese thinking on the Bill of Rights, he was forthcoming and said that the Chinese leadership have been misled into believing that the Bill of
would
be supreme over all other HK laws.
As far as
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