Former Canadian Supreme Court justice Beverley McLachlin says she will resign her seat on Hong Kong’s highest appellate court when her term ends this summer.Ms. McLachlin had faced repeated calls to resign since China’s 2020 imposition of a national-security law eroded the legal freedoms and rule of law that Beijing promised Hong Kong citizens would remain in place until 2047.
Back in 2020, former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler, a widely respected champion of human rights, said Ms. McLachlin should consider resigning her seat to protest against China’s national security law.Last December, the son of jailed pro-democracy newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai, on trial in Hong Kong for allegedly publishing seditious material and colluding with foreign forces, also urged her to step down. Sebastien Lai asked whether Ms.
Ms. McLachlin became the first Canadian appointed to the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal in 2018, just months after retiring from a 28-year career on the Supreme Court, including 18 as chief justice.
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