Lawyers for Hong Kong government argue Beijing’s decision endorsing ‘co-location’ arrangement ‘as good as binding’

A decision by China’s top legislative body is “as good as binding” in Hong Kong, even without a formal interpretation of the Basic Law, lawyers for the local government argued in the Court of Appeal on Tuesday.Benjamin Yu SC made the assertion in response to a key question that arose in the judicial review over the government’s controversial arrangement allowing the application of national laws at the cross-border high-speed rail terminus in West Kowloon since September 2018.The applicants had…

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