{
  "id": 17602614,
  "title": "Clarify crime thresholds and immunity in bid-rigging law: Hong Kong Bar Association",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/01/clarify-crime-thresholds-and-immunity-in-bid-rigging-law-hong-kong-17602614",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-01T12:36:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post - Hong Kong",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post-hong-kong",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3372894/clarify-crime-thresholds-and-immunity-bid-rigging-law-hong-kong-bar-association"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Hong Kong Bar Association has called on the government to clearly define criminal thresholds and resolve whistle-blower immunity rules under its plan to outlaw bid-rigging following the deadly Tai Po inferno. A task force formed by the association, which represents the city’s barristers, spent 10 months reviewing four key areas of law and published a 140-page report on Sunday in the hope of…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}