Chief Justice says foreign judges will remain in top court
(01-14 18:58)
The Chief Justice, Geoffrey Ma Tao-li, has rejected suggestions that overseas judges should be excluded from the Court of Final Appeal.
He said the the Basic Law explicitly states that judges can be recruited from other common law jurisdictions, RTHK reports.
Ma noted that since the handover, the Court of Final Appeal has invited a foregn judge to sit on almost all of its full appeal cases.
A mainland scholar, Cheng Jie, from Tsinghua University, suggested last November that all Court of Final Appeal judges should be Hong Kong permanent residents.
|
|
|
|
