Hong Kong’s courts are independent and proceedings are conducted in accordance with the evidence presented, the government has said after a former top court judge said the Judiciary was “too partial” to the authorities. The government’s comments came after former non-permanent Court of Final Appeal judge Lord Jonathan Sumption explained in a podcast earlier this month why he quit the city’s top court in June. “I left because it seemed to me that recent cases in Hong Kong suggested that the Judiciary was too partial to the government in criminal cases,” he said on an episode of the podcast Law …
