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Statue of Lady Justice blindfolded and holding a balance and a sword, outside the Court of Final Appeal, Hong Kong. Lady Justice (Latin: Iustitia) is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems. [1] [2] Her attributes are scales, a sword and sometimes a blindfold. She often appears as a pair with Prudentia.
There are all sorts of question marks up in the air.' [25] However, the Hong Kong Judiciary claimed that her leaving was for personal reasons. [26] [27] Lady Hale became the first senior British judge to quit Hong Kong's top court after her fellow judge, Australian James Spigelman, resigned as a Hong Kong judge in November 2020. [28]
Ellen Li: [120] First female Justice of the Peace in Hong Kong (1948) Betty Searle: [121] First female magistrate in Hong Kong (1956) Maria Ip: [122] First female appointed as an Assistant Crown Counsel in Hong Kong (1976) Marjorie Chui: [123] [124] First female Chinese judge in Hong Kong (1976) Helen Lo: [125] [126] First female appointed as a ...
It is surmounted by a 2.7 m high blindfolded statue of Justice, represented by Themis, the Greek goddess of justice and law. [3] This statue was inspired by the one erected at London's Old Bailey. During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong (December 1941 to August 1945), the building was used as the headquarters of the Kempeitai (Military ...
It replaced the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London as the highest appellate court of Hong Kong, The Court comprises five judges — the Chief Justice, three permanent judges and one non-permanent judge from Hong Kong or another common law jurisdiction. There is a panel of eight non-permanent Hong Kong judges and nine non ...
A former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada is stepping down from Hong Kong's top court, the city's officials said Monday, following a raft of other overseas judges' resignations from ...
A number of serving and retired Hong Kong High Court Judges also sit as Supreme Court Judges in Brunei. For example, while Mr Justice Rogers served as Vice President of the Hong Kong Court of Appeal, he also sat as a non-resident Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Brunei Darussalam between 2010 and 2011.
HONG KONG. Hong Kong's leader John Lee accused unidentified foreign forces of “slandering” the city's judiciary, the department of justice and law enforcement agencies, accusing them of ...