Responses from the Professional Commons on the “Consultation Paper on Arrangements for Filling Vacancies in the Legislative Council”

What's New | September 26th, 2011 |

I. Introduction 1. In the “Consultation Paper on Arrangements for Filling Vacancies in the Legislative Council” (hereafter “Consultation Paper”) in July 2011, the HKSAR Government (hereafter “the Government”) claimed that the changing the arrangements for filling vacancies in the Legislative Council (hereafter the “LegCo”) is to ”plug” the so-called “loophole” caused by th...