{"id":51937,"date":"2023-01-17T16:05:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T07:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/17\/australian-justice-appointed-to-hong-kong-court-argues-foreign-judges-shouldnt-vacate-the-field"},"modified":"2023-01-17T16:05:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T07:05:05","slug":"australian-justice-appointed-to-hong-kong-court-argues-foreign-judges-shouldnt-vacate-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51937","title":{"rendered":"Australian justice appointed to Hong Kong court argues foreign judges shouldn\u2019t \u2018vacate the field\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Some legal figures have raised concerns about message his appointment sends in light of Beijing\u2019s crackdown on freedom in Hong Kong<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The former Australian high court judge Patrick Keane has dismissed criticism of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/jan\/16\/former-australian-high-court-justice-patrick-keane-set-to-serve-on-hong-kongs-top-court\">appointment to a top Hong Kong court<\/a>, saying he weighed up the role carefully but believed foreign judges should not \u201cvacate the field\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Legal figures have noted Keane\u2019s eminent record, but some raised concerns about the message his appointment sends in light of Beijing\u2019s increasing crackdown on rights and freedoms in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/17\/australian-justice-appointed-to-hong-kong-court-argues-foreign-judges-shouldnt-vacate-the-field\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Some legal figures have raised concerns about message his appointment sends in light of Beijing\u2019s crackdown on freedom in Hong KongGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe former Australian high court judg&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"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":[41,43,50,48,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-law"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51937","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\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51938,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51937\/revisions\/51938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}