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Hong Kong’s outgoing Bar Association chair calls for renewing of contacts – ‘even on a modest level’ – amid chilly relationship with Beijing
Beijing’s relationship with the body regulating Hong Kong’s barristers has grown increasingly rocky over the past three years, its outgoing chairman has acknowledged, while calling for a resumption of exchanges to iron out differences.Philip Dykes, council chairman of the Bar Association, revealed that since he took over in 2018 with the goal of making the professional body more vocal on significant legal issues, the group’s routine exchanges with the mainland had ground to a complete halt.In a…