- 25 A - social organizations, the media, and the internet; and NSL 10 requires the Region to promote national security education in B A B schools and universities and through social organizations, the C media, the internet and other means to raise the awareness of Hong Kong residents of national security and of the obligation D C D to abide by the law. E F E 39. G Focusing on the court’s duty, NSL 3(3) provides: “The … judiciary of the Region shall effectively prevent, suppress and impose punishment for any act or activity endangering national security in accordance with [the NSL] and other relevant laws.” H I K Wynn Owen KC (2022) 25 HKCFAR 288, at [33]: N O S T L M N O 41. R J K “The courts of the HKSAR are of course fully committed to safeguarding national security and to acting effectively to prevent, suppress and impose punishment for any act or activity endangering national security as required by NSL 3. That duty would unfailingly be carried out whenever national security issues are properly raised and duly explored, enabling the courts to undertake a proper adjudication of those issues.” M Q H As to how the court should carry out the mandate in NSL 3(3), the Court of Final Appeal emphasized in Secretary for Justice v Timothy L P G I 40. J F Significantly, the Court of Final Appeal went on to point out that, in relation to the context of that case, namely, ad hoc admissions of overseas counsel, where national security considerations properly arise, such considerations are plainly of the highest importance to be taken into account. The same must be equally true in other contexts where the court’s discretion is invoked, such as the present. The court must give the national security considerations raised by the Secretary such weight as is commensurate with their highest importance. P Q R S T U U V V