{"id":64879,"date":"2024-06-12T22:31:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T13:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/12\/remaining-british-judges-face-pressure-to-resign-from-hong-kong-top-court"},"modified":"2024-06-12T22:31:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T13:31:30","slug":"remaining-british-judges-urged-to-resign-from-hong-kongs-top-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64879","title":{"rendered":"Remaining British judges urged to resign from Hong Kong\u2019s top court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three British judges still on territory\u2019s top bench under pressure to quit after two others stepped down last week<\/p>\n<p>Pressure is increasing on the last remaining British judges who sit in Hong Kong\u2019s top court to resign, after two senior justices stepped down last week because of the \u201cpolitical situation\u201d in the former British colony.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Sumption and Lawrence Collins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/06\/british-judges-resign-hong-kong-top-court-sumption-collins\">resigned as non-permanent overseas judges<\/a> from Hong Kong\u2019s court of final appeal on Thursday. Collins cited the \u201cpolitical situation in Hong Kong\u201d in a brief statement about his departure.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/12\/remaining-british-judges-face-pressure-to-resign-from-hong-kong-top-court\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three British judges still on territory\u2019s top bench under pressure to quit after two others stepped down last weekPressure is increasing on the last remaining British judges who sit in Hong Kong\u2019s top court to resign, after two senior justices step&#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":[41,48,3124,86,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-judiciary","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\/64879","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=64879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64880,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64879\/revisions\/64880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}