Chief Executive John Lee has hit back at a former top court judge who said Hong Kong was “slowly becoming an authoritarian state” in an op-ed explaining his reasons for quitting the city’s Court of Final Appeal, saying that judges’ expertise lay in the law, not politics. At a routine press briefing on Tuesday, Lee responded to questions from reporters about the resignation of Lord Jonathan Sumption. In a Financial Times opinion piece published on Monday, Sumption said judges in the city were having to operate in an “almost impossible political environment created by China” and that the city’s …
