Former Hong Kong chief justice calls on city to prepare for fewer overseas judges serving in top court, says it should not affect high standards


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Hong Kong’s first chief justice after the end of British rule has called on the city to be prepared for fewer overseas judges serving in the highest local court as a long-term reality that should not affect high standards. Andrew Li Kwok-nang, who presided over the judiciary from 1997 to 2010, said it was “regrettable” that the UK on Wednesday withdrew its last two serving judges from Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal in a move that the city’s officials and legal heavyweights have condemned as politically driven. “The decision of the UK Supreme Court to withdraw [the two judges]...