A foreign top court judge has stepped down from Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal (CFA), declining to extend his tenure for “personal reasons,” the Judiciary has told HKFP. Briton Nicholas Phillips, 86, is the fourth foreign judge to step down from the apex court this year. In response to HKFP on Sunday, a Judiciary spokesperson said that the common law Non-Permanent Judge (NPJ) had sat on the CFA since October 1, 2012: “He indicated recently that he did not wish to have his term of appointment extended upon its expiry on 30 September 2024 due to personal reasons. Lord Phillips will have compl…
