Ousting the courts’ jurisdiction

Can a legislature ever exclude judicial review? Should it?

Does a clause in Hong Kong’s national security law effectively oust the jurisdiction of the courts? That’s the question I raised in a piece published here yesterday:

Hong Kong tries to ban British KC

As you might expect, Lai and his lawyers argue that

the court’s constitutional role as a check against judicial overreach by government bodies cannot be excluded, and at any rate not under t…