The law societies of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland have unreservedly condemned the recent announcement by the Government of the People’s Republic of China of sanctions against British lawyers who provided legal advice on human-rights violations in the Xinjiang region of China.
The joint bar associations’ statement said that the imposition of sanctions on lawyers for providing a legal opinion clearly contravened the UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, which says that “lawyers shall not be identified with their clients or their clients’ causes as a result of discharging their functions”.
https://www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-stories/law-societies-combine-to-condemn-chinas-treatment-of-lawyers-advising-uyghurs/
