{"id":10305,"date":"2021-01-19T13:24:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T13:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3118383\/lawyers-hong-kong-government-argue-beijings-decision"},"modified":"2021-01-19T13:24:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T13:24:11","slug":"lawyers-for-hong-kong-government-argue-beijings-decision-endorsing-co-location-arrangement-as-good-as-binding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/lawyers-for-hong-kong-government-argue-beijings-decision-endorsing-co-location-arrangement-as-good-as-binding\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers for Hong Kong government argue Beijing\u2019s decision endorsing \u2018co-location\u2019 arrangement \u2018as good as binding\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"A decision by China\u2019s top legislative body is \u201cas good as binding\u201d 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\u2019s 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\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3118383\/lawyers-hong-kong-government-argue-beijings-decision\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decision by China\u2019s top legislative body is \u201cas good as binding\u201d 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 respo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":996,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/996"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10306,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305\/revisions\/10306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}