British judge Lord Sumption has said he did not quit Hong Kong’s top court sooner, as he “wanted to see how things will develop,” following Beijing’s imposition of the 2020 security law. Sumption, who resigned from the Court of Final Appeal last Thursday, wrote in a Financial Times opinion piece on Monday that judges’ freedoms had been “severely limited” in the city. He deemed a recent judgement against Hong Kong democrats “legally indefensible,” and warned the city was beginning to resemble a “totalitarian state.” It prompted a 2,800-word government statement in the early hours of Tuesday say…
