{"id":10653,"date":"2021-01-20T02:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T02:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118417\/hong-kongs-outgoing-bar-association-chair-calls-renewing"},"modified":"2021-01-20T02:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T02:00:22","slug":"hong-kongs-outgoing-bar-association-chair-calls-for-renewing-of-contacts-even-on-a-modest-level-amid-chilly-relationship-with-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/hong-kongs-outgoing-bar-association-chair-calls-for-renewing-of-contacts-even-on-a-modest-level-amid-chilly-relationship-with-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s outgoing Bar Association chair calls for renewing of contacts \u2013 \u2018even on a modest level\u2019 \u2013 amid chilly relationship with Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"Beijing\u2019s relationship with the body regulating Hong Kong\u2019s 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\u2019s routine exchanges with the mainland had ground to a complete halt.In a\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118417\/hong-kongs-outgoing-bar-association-chair-calls-renewing\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s relationship with the body regulating Hong Kong\u2019s 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, cou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":768,"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\/10653"}],"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\/768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10654,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10653\/revisions\/10654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}