Hong Kong legal chief pledges to grow city's status as top regional legal hub
Solicitor General tells Legal Week conference that rule of law is safe and that businesses will enjoy level playing field
June 18, 2015 at 02:59 AM
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Hong Kong's Solicitor General, Frank Poon, pledged to grow the jurisdiction's status as a legal and dispute resolution hub in his keynote speech at the Legal Week Corporate Counsel Forum Hong Kong today.
"This government's policy has its logical underpinning in Hong Kong's role as a global business and financial centre and the historical development of its legal system," he told the delegation of 250 general counsel and other senior lawyers at the sell-out Hong Kong event.
Referring to the recent demonstrations in Hong Kong, Poon, who is a member of the Department of Justice, went on to extoll the strength of the rule of law in the jurisdiction under the 'one country, two systems' principle, claiming it was "robust enough to withstand the test of the occupy movement".
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