{"id":64829,"date":"2024-06-11T04:15:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T19:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/10\/overseas-judge-resigns-from-hong-kongs-top-court"},"modified":"2024-06-11T17:34:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T08:34:55","slug":"canadian-judge-is-latest-to-resign-from-hong-kongs-top-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64829","title":{"rendered":"Canadian judge is latest to step down from Hong Kong\u2019s top court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beverley McLachlin\u2019s decision comes after British judge Lord Sumption quit court of final appeal, condemning \u2018impossible political environment\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A former chief justice of Canada\u2019s supreme court has announced she is stepping down from Hong Kong\u2019s court of final appeal \u2013 the latest in a string of departures amid concerns about judicial independence from China.<\/p>\n<p>Beverley McLachlin, 80, said she would be leaving the territory\u2019s top court when her term ends next month to spend more time with her family, but that she still held \u201cconfidence in the members of the court, their independence and their determination to uphold the rule of law\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/10\/overseas-judge-resigns-from-hong-kongs-top-court\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beverley McLachlin\u2019s decision comes after British judge Lord Sumption quit court of final appeal, condemning \u2018impossible political environment\u2019A former chief justice of Canada\u2019s supreme court has announced she is stepping down from Hong Kong\u2019s court of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64829","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64829"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64851,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64829\/revisions\/64851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}