{"id":44896,"date":"2022-05-26T22:56:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T13:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/hong-kong-judicial-independence-overseas-judges"},"modified":"2022-05-26T22:56:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T13:56:57","slug":"hong-kong-judicial-independence-under-systematic-attack-legal-figures-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44896","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong judicial independence under systematic attack, legal figures warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Signatories of legal opinion say territory\u2019s government is using continued presence of overseas judges as \u2018vote of confidence\u2019<\/p>\n<p>International judicial figures including the former UK attorney general Sir Robert Buckland have warned the remaining British, Australian and Canadian judges operating in Hong Kong that they are working in an environment where judicial independence has been wholly undermined and the Chinese Communist party can dictate the outcome of cases.<\/p>\n<p>The group has backed a legal opinion that says the systematic threats to Hong Kong\u2019s judicial independence will continue to intensify, and that the continued presence of overseas judges is being used by the territory\u2019s government as a vote of confidence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/hong-kong-judicial-independence-overseas-judges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signatories of legal opinion say territory\u2019s government is using continued presence of overseas judges as \u2018vote of confidence\u2019International judicial figures including the former UK attorney general Sir Robert Buckland have warned the remaining British,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,86,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-law","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44897,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44896\/revisions\/44897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}