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New Zealand judge gets nod from Hong Kong lawmakers to join top court

Hong Kong’s legislature has endorsed the appointment of a 73-year-old retired New Zealand judge to the city’s top court, the first foreign non-permanent justice to join in over a year amid a number of recent resignations. William Gillow Gibbes Austen Young, who retired as permanent judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in April 2022 after serving for 12 years, will join five other overseas non-permanent justices from common law jurisdictions at the Court of Final Appeal. Chief Secretary Eric...


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