Hong Kong solicitors last night passed a vote of no confidence against the city’s Law Society president Ambrose Lam following comments he made in June in support a controversial Beijing white paper.

Approximately 1,000 Law Society members are thought to have attended the extraodinary general meeting, which was called by a group of 50 lawyers earlier in the year who said Lam had caused “outrage in the legal community” and failed to defend Hong Kong’s rule of law.