{"id":67026,"date":"2024-09-30T14:55:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T05:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/30\/nicholas-phillips-british-hong-kong-court-judge-steps-down-personal-reasons"},"modified":"2024-09-30T21:18:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T12:18:32","slug":"british-judge-nicholas-phillips-steps-down-from-hong-kong-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67026","title":{"rendered":"British judge Nicholas Phillips steps down from Hong Kong court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phillips, who the court of final appeal said was stepping down for \u2018personal reasons\u2019, is fifth foreign judge to leave city\u2019s judiciary this year<\/p>\n<p>The British judge Nicholas Phillips has stepped down from Hong Kong\u2019s top appeals court, the fifth overseas judge to leave the city\u2019s judiciary this year.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips, 86, is leaving Hong Kong\u2019s court of final appeal (CFA) after 22 years for \u201cpersonal reasons\u201d after his fourth term ended on Monday and he said he did not wish to extend it, the court said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/30\/nicholas-phillips-british-hong-kong-court-judge-steps-down-personal-reasons\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phillips, who the court of final appeal said was stepping down for \u2018personal reasons\u2019, is fifth foreign judge to leave city\u2019s judiciary this yearThe British judge Nicholas Phillips has stepped down from Hong Kong\u2019s top appeals court, the fifth overseas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,48,86,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-law","category-uk-news","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\/67026","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67034,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67026\/revisions\/67034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}