nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20191123-001948-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 191122s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20191123-001948-0 doi eng 342 23 Cheung, Alvin Y.H. Author aut The Hong Kong Judiciary and Beijing’s Temper Tantrum Cheung, Alvin Y.H. Verfassungsblog 2019-11-22 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 18 November 2019, Hong Kong’s Court of First Instance held that parts of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, and the Prohibition on Face Covering Regulation enacted pursuant to the Ordinance, violate the territory’s Basic Law – its constitutional instrument. Beijing’s response to the ruling was the equivalent of a temper tantrum. Viewed in light of the Court's judgment and Beijing’s lengthy history of undermining the Hong Kong judiciary, Beijing’s latest outbursts amount to nothing less than a declaration of war on the territory’s common law legal system. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 China Hong Kong Human Rights Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-hong-kong-judiciary-and-beijings-temper-tantrum/ raw object