Hong Kong Bar Association and World Justice Project co-host first conference
發佈日期: 2025-08-26 23:50
TVB News
The Hong Kong Bar Association and the World Justice Project co-hosted an anti-corruption forum as part of their inaugural conference.
The Bar Association's chairman also commented on the recent amendment to the city's prison rules.
Co-hosting the "Absence of Corruption" conference with the World Justice Project, an international organisation advocating the rule of law, Bar Association's chairman Jose-Antonio Maurellet noted Hong Kong is one of the least corrupt places in the world.
The Bar Association further noted the conference helps to facilitate communication between Hong Kong's legal sector and its international counterparts, allowing both sides to learn from each other.
Hong Kong Bar Association Chairman Jose-Antonio Maurellet stressed with the ever-growing importance of the fight against corruption, today's forum presented an opportunity for the World Justice Project to better understand how Hong Kong is tackling the problem via the unique One Country, Two Systems principle.
Maurellet also commented on the government's amendment to the Prison Rules preventing detainees from contact with particular lawyers.
JOSE-ANTONIO MAURELLET, Chairman, Hong Kong Bar Association: "This targets legal representatives in circumstances where the authorities believe there is evidence to think that by allowing a particular detainee to use a particular lawyer, there will be certain serious crimes committed. In particular, perverting the course of justice and causing serious bodily injury. The access to lawyers should be very carefully protected, in fact it's protected under the Basic Law. It's very obvious that if there's a change of lawyer in the middle of the course of proceedings, that this could cause interruption."
