Book contents
- Reviews
- Treaty for a Lost City
- Treaty for a Lost City
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Provisions in the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law of the Hong Kong S.A.R.
- Part I 1982–1997
- Part II 1997–2014
- Part III 2014–2021
- Introduction to Part III
- 8 Patriotism, Comprehensive Jurisdiction, Formal Allegiance: 2014–2017
- 9 Fundamental Rights and the 2019 Extradition Bill
- 10 The 2020 National Security Law
- 11 Aftermath
- Book part
- Index
9 - Fundamental Rights and the 2019 Extradition Bill
from Part III - 2014–2021
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2022
- Reviews
- Treaty for a Lost City
- Treaty for a Lost City
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Provisions in the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law of the Hong Kong S.A.R.
- Part I 1982–1997
- Part II 1997–2014
- Part III 2014–2021
- Introduction to Part III
- 8 Patriotism, Comprehensive Jurisdiction, Formal Allegiance: 2014–2017
- 9 Fundamental Rights and the 2019 Extradition Bill
- 10 The 2020 National Security Law
- 11 Aftermath
- Book part
- Index
Summary
Central to the ‘West Kowloon terminus’ issue was whether Hong Kong’s guarantee of rights would still apply, notwithstanding the application of Mainland law. Mr. Rimsky Yuen, then Secretary for Justice, had adopted the legal position that a lease not of property but of territory would be involved and that apparently would have avoided the issue of Hong Kong rights superimposed upon the application of Mainland laws. A very similar issue was to emerge albeit in different guise, in 2019, in connection with the prospect of renditions to the Mainland. Would Hong Kong’s rights regime apply to requests for rendition? Unlike the earlier 2014 protests, 2019 was marked by a degree of violence which initially the world outside was perhaps slow to recognise.
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- Treaty for a Lost CityThe Sino-British Joint Declaration, pp. 200 - 215Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022