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Is it time for UK judges leave HK?

Is it time for UK judges leave HK?

Questions have been raised about a ruling with which Lord Reed concurred

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Feb 18, 2022
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A Hong Kong court relied on a ruling by the UK’s most senior judge to justify jailing a former pro-democracy member of the territory’s parliament, The Times reports today. It quotes MPs as saying that UK judges should no longer sit in Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal.

No British judge was involved in the case of Fernando Cheung, who was sentenced to thr…

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