Judges: Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal
(asked on 31st January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases UK judges served on for the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021; and what proportion of those cases related to (i) criminal, (ii) civil and (iii) commercial offences.
The two serving Supreme Court judges who sit in the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal heard cases as follows:
2019: Lord Reed heard two criminal cases in September.
2020: No serving UK Supreme Court judges heard any cases.
2021: Lord Reed heard two criminal cases (he sat remotely from 31 August to 3 September). Lord Hodge heard two criminal cases (he sat in Hong Kong between 23 and 26 November 2021).