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Britain warns on future of UK judges in Hong Kong

Ministers say Beijing’s security crackdown raises ‘important questions on rule of law’

Senior UK ministers have warned that British judges sitting in Hong Kong should not lend “a veneer of respectability” to the region’s legal system if it is compromised by Beijing’s new security law.

Dominic Raab, foreign secretary, and Robert Buckland, justice secretary, have raised concerns about the risk of British judges facing “inappropriate pressure” while sitting on Hong Kong’s court of final appeal.

The ministers raised their issues in a letter to Robert Reed, president of the UK Supreme Court, following the imposition of a security crackdown on Hong Kong by Beijing.

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