overseas judges – Charm

Legal Tales | Do we still need overseas judges in Hong Kong’s top court?

Cs news3 months ago03 mins

One of the vivid memories of my days as an undergraduate law student in London was to watch a live debate between Lord Woolf and Professor Michael Zander on what was known as the Woolf reforms. Lord Woolf was then the Master of the Rolls in the English Court of Appeal and was undertaking the…

My Take | Hong Kong cannot allow its system of foreign judges to wither and die

Cs news3 months ago03 mins

And then there were five. The pool of eminent foreign judges sitting on Hong Kong’s top court, once of Olympic proportions, continues to evaporate. It is now little more than a puddle. The latest judge to depart is Robert French, the former chief justice of Australia’s High Court. His resignation is a blow to the…