{"id":64743,"date":"2024-06-07T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/06\/british-judges-resign-hong-kong-top-court-sumption-collins"},"modified":"2024-06-07T12:40:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T03:40:36","slug":"two-more-british-judges-resign-from-hong-kongs-top-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64743","title":{"rendered":"Two more British judges resign from Hong Kong\u2019s top court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy campaigners welcome move by Lord Sumption and Lord Collins, who cited political situation in statement<\/p>\n<p>Two of the last remaining British judges to sit on Hong Kong\u2019s top court have resigned, with one citing the political situation in the former colony.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Collins and Jonathan Sumption, former UK supreme court justices, announced their resignations on Thursday. \u201cI have resigned from the court of final appeal because of the political situation in Hong Kong, but I continue to have the fullest confidence in the court and the total independence of its members,\u201d Lord Collins said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/06\/british-judges-resign-hong-kong-top-court-sumption-collins\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy campaigners welcome move by Lord Sumption and Lord Collins, who cited political situation in statementTwo of the last remaining British judges to sit on Hong Kong\u2019s top court have resigned, with one citing the political situation in the forme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,48,86,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-law","category-uk-news","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\/64743","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64745,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64743\/revisions\/64745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}