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Today in Focus

The British judges ruling on the law in authoritarian Hong Kong

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Since 1997 Hong Kong’s highest court has included British judges. But with China changing the laws in the city, they are being urged to resign. Amy Hawkins reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:02.0

Today, as China keeps dismantling Hong Kong's democracy, should British judges still be serving on the city's courts?

0:17.0

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1:16.0

but in business made more than a billion dollars before he became one of the leading voices in Hong Kong's fight to stay free and democratic.

1:24.0

They don't want Hong Kong to be free.

1:28.8

They just can't tolerate a fee city, which doesn't follow the same values in China and this is a form in

1:39.7

their eyes. In 2020 as Beijing cracked down on Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, Jimmy Lai, who's a British citizen, was arrested and charged with fraud, sedition, collusion, a raft of new national security laws imposed on Hong Kong by Beijing.

2:01.3

He's on trial right now for some of these charges and appealing convictions in others, but here's a part of the story you may not know, which is that when one of lies appeals goes in front of a court for its next hearing on Monday.

2:14.0

One of the judges deciding that appeal will be British.

2:19.0

David Newberger, a member of the House of Lords, and before he retired, the second most powerful

2:28.1

judge in England.

2:29.8

It's a quirk of British colonial history that lives on to this day, but as China

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