HONG KONG — Beverley McLachlin loved being a judge, and despite retiring last year as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, is relishing the chance to serve on the bench again.
Delivering a freestyle oath of office, the boyish-looking 32-year-old repudiated Chinese control of the enclave and wore a banner draped across his shoulders that read “Hong Kong is not China.” Officials barred him and others who did the same from taking their seats. “Our system is dying — I don’t know how long it can hold on,” Leung told the National Post recently, sitting, appropriately, next to Hong Kong’s evocative monument to the Tiananmen Square massacre. “This is a disaster.”
“So far, there is I believe a strong independent judiciary there, and it’s important to continue to make it work,” she said in an interview. “It’s good to do whatever we can to be part of that and make that happen.” More to the point, the system aims to deliver the kind of fairness, transparency and independence from political influence that are the goals of courts in Western countries. That is considered crucial to Hong Kong’s continued success as a financial hub, a guarantee that international businesses will be treated equitably.
But other actions by Beijing and its surrogates in the Hong Kong government are having an impact all the same, critics charge. That episode followed a 2014 white paper from China that said Hong Kong judges are mere “administrators” who must love the country. That kind of rationalization smacks of how judges in authoritarian countries often try to avoid the wrath of their masters, and shore up their own credibility, said Cheung.
Sounds like white supremacy...the white Canadian woman trying to tell the Chinese how to run their legal system....
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