Hong Kong Bar Association wants barristers to help government find a solution to city’s crisis
- Some 1,500 barristers have been invited to a brainstorming session
- Association will not offer ‘a particular solution for politics’ sake’: chairman
In the memo sent to the city’s some 1,500 barristers, Philip Dykes SC, chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, said it was prepared to assist the government in finding a solution.
He planned to meet barristers who were keen to offer solutions, together with his Bar Council’s members, on a day to be announced by the end of October. They would then consider the views offered and formulate an approach.
While some feared it would politicise the apolitical association, Dykes stressed it “will not espouse a particular solution for politics’ sake”.
“This meeting is intended to be a brainstorming meeting to seek members’ views on possible solutions to the crisis and how best the Bar can assist the [government] to find a path to its restoration and to reconciliation in the best interests of the Hong Kong community within the [association’s] constitutional limitations,” he said.
