National security law: Hong Kong should appoint judges from Singapore, Malaysia to limit city's reliance on Western jurists, lawmakers say | South China Morning Post

Hong Kong should appoint judges to its top court from common law jurisdictions such as Singapore and Malaysia to reduce the reliance on Western jurists who face pressure in their home countries to leave or avoid the city, lawmakers have said. Legislators suggested the recruitment reforms on Monday as they endorsed the promotion of veteran judge Johnson Lam Man-hon to become a permanent member of the Court of Final Appeal, the final stage of the process before his formal appointment. Members of the Legislative Council subcommittee during the debate urged the government to consider shifting the focus away from appointing…