Moreover in recent years, certain foreign or external forces have flagrantly interfered in Hong Kong's affairs. They have made intervention and created disturbances in various ways, such as by legislative and administrative means and through non-governmental organizations. In collusion with those anti-China Hong Kong disputers, these same forces colluded with them in disruption […]
In the Administration’s view, abolition of the common law offences of maintenance and champerty would involve broader legal and policy concerns, including those of recovery agents and litigation funding companies.
The offence of maintenance is to discourage “officious intermeddling” in litigation, in particular where this results in oppression of the person against whom the action is brought[…]