Hong Kong’s leader John Lee has asked Beijing to rule on whether foreign lawyers can work on national security cases, after the territory’s top court rejected the government’s attempt to prevent a British barrister from representing jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai.
Lee told a news conference on Tuesday that he expected China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) to make a ruling on the matter “as soon as possible”, but did not indicate whether the decision would come before the start of Lai’s trial on Thursday.
