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Hong Kong’s justice minister Paul Lam has played down the recent resignation of three foreign judges from the city’s top court, saying local judges are more important in safeguarding the rule of law. Lam on Thursday also said he disagreed with British judge Jonathan Sumption, who recently resigned from the city’s Court of Final Appeal (CFA) and criticised the national security case against 47 pro-democracy figures. Lam said the court proceedings had not been completed and Sumption “could not be unaware” of the pressure on the judges due to his comments. But Lam said he respected Sumption’s con...
Hong Kong Free Press
British judge Lord Sumption has said he did not quit Hong Kong’s top court sooner, as he “wanted to see how things will develop,” following Beijing’s imposition of the 2020 security law. Sumption, who resigned from the Court of Final Appeal last Thursday, wrote in a Financial Times opinion piece on Monday that judges’ freedoms had been “severely limited” in the city. He deemed a recent judgement against Hong Kong democrats “legally indefensible,” and warned the city was beginning to resemble a “totalitarian state.” It prompted a 2,800-word government statement in the early hours of Tuesday say...
Hong Kong Free Press
A Hong Kong woman sentenced to life imprisonment over the murder of two relatives has lost her appeal against her conviction at the city’s top court. The Court of Final Appeal upheld the High Court’s verdict in the trial of Ada Tsim on Wednesday. The 49-year-old, who reportedly worked as a bodyguard in mainland China, was found guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm in 2021. The top court’s decision came six years after Tsim was arrested over a fatal shooting at a Quarry Bay park, which left two of her elderly relatives dead and two oth...
Hong Kong Free Press
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