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Australian and Canadian judges yesterday said that they would stay at Hong Kong’s top court after two senior British justices resigned to avoid endorsing China’s crackdown on political freedoms in the territory. Judges from common law jurisdictions are invited to sit as non-permanent members at the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, which is separate from mainland China’s legal system. British Supreme Court president Robert Reed and fellow judge Patrick Hodge on Wednesday resigned from the court, saying that the Hong Kong government had “departed from values of political freedom and free...

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss says the senior UK judges continuing to occupy roles there risked “legitimising oppression”.

HONG KONG - The resignation of two senior British judges was politically motivated, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Thursday (March 31), adding that she was confident all levels of the judiciary in the Asian financial hub would be free from political interference. The judges resigned from Hong Kong's highest court on Wednesday because of a sweeping national security...

China has blamed the resignation of two senior UK judges from Hong Kong's highest court on "British pressure" against a sweeping national security law while three Au...

LONDON — Two senior British judges, including the president of the UK Supreme Court, have submitted their resignation from Hong Kong's highest court, saying their role was untenable because of a security law China imposed on the former British colony. In statement on Wednesday (March 30), Robert Reed, who heads Britain's top judicial body, said he and colleague Patrick Hodge,...