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Canadian judge Beverley McLachlin extended a three-year appointment with a commercial court in Singapore 140 days before she quit Hong Kong’s top court in May, citing a desire to spend more time with family. In an emailed statement to Canada’s National Post, Singapore Courts spokesperson Tashinnya Chandrasekaran said her appointment on the Singapore International Commercial Court was “extended for a period of three years with effect from 5 January 2024.” See also: Why do foreign judges sit on Hong Kong’s top court? McLachlin was the third overseas judge on the city’s apex court to announce the...
Hong Kong Free Press
UK judge Lord Sumption has deemed a recent judgement against Hong Kong democrats “legally indefensible,” said judges’ freedoms have been “severely limited,” and has spoken of an “oppressive atmosphere” and paranoia among the authorities, days after he quit the city’s top court. “Hong Kong, once a vibrant and politically diverse community is slowly becoming a totalitarian state. The rule of law is profoundly compromised in any area about which the government feels strongly,” he wrote in an explosive opinion piece for the Financial Times on Monday. Last Thursday, the 75-year-old overseas judge q...
Hong Kong Free Press
Hong Kong’s justice secretary, chief justice, and its two professional legal bodies, have backed the city’s judicial independence, after two of the top court’s overseas judges resigned on Thursday. Meanwhile, the city’s leader said rights and freedoms have been maintained after one of the judges cited the “political situation” as his reason for quitting. British judges Lord Jonathan Sumption, 75, and Lord Lawrence Collins, 83, quit the Court of Final Appeal, with the latter citing the “political situation.” Chief Justice Andrew Cheung said in a statement in the early hours of Friday that Non-P...
Hong Kong Free Press
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