Two British judges quit Hong Kong’s top court
Foreigners on the bench in the city face a tricky dilemma
IN 2016 Leung Kwok-hung, a politician also known as “Long Hair”, snatched a folder of confidential documents from a government official during a meeting at Hong Kong’s legislature. Charged with contempt, his case ended up in Hong Kong’s court of final appeal last year. One of the five judges was Lord Reed, the head of Britain’s supreme court.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “The dangers of sitting too long”
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