Hong Kong's largest lawyer body will vote on its governing council, an annual event made fraught this year by the city-state's national security law, with pro-Beijing media accusing some candidates of political bias
The 12,000 member professional and regulatory body for the city's legal sector has a watchdog role over legal changes, and a say in the appointments of judges and lawyers who sit on various government advisory bodies. The election on Tuesday is for five of its governing council's 20 seats.
Other major professional bodies have come under pressure recently too, including Hong Kong's largest teachers union, which disbanded this month after being attacked in pro-Beijing media as a "poisonous tumour". "There is an impressionable aura for many Hong Kongers that the 'Rule of Law is dead'. I feel that is an extremely negative way of putting it," Masood told Reuters.
Ross and Masood have said such claims are untrue. Brock and Wheare couldn't be immediately reached for comment.
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