secondary materials
Official statements
‘Hong Kong National Security Law Undermines Rule of Law’ (The Law Society, 7 July 2020) <https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/en/contact-or-visit-us/press-office/press-releases/hong-kong-national-security-law-undermines-rule-of-law> accessed 22 April 2021
Press Release: Foreign Secretary declares breach of Sino-British Joint Declaration (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 12 November 2020) <https://www.gov.uk/government/news/foreign-secretary-declares-breach-of-sino-british-joint-declaration> accessed 23 April 2021
Press Release: Radical Changes to Hong Kong's Electoral System: Foreign Secretary's statement (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 13 March 2021) <https://www.gov.uk/government/news/foreign-secretary-statement-on-radical-changes-to-hong-kongs-electoral-system> accessed 23 April 2021
Six-Monthly Report on Hong Kong, 1 January to June 2020 (Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 23 November 2020) <https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/937162/Hong_Kong_Six_Monthly_Report_January_-_June_2020.pdf> accessed 23 April 2021
Statement by The Honourable Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma (Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, 23 September 2020) <https://www.hkcfa.hk/filemanager/common/pdf/Statement%20by%20CJ%20of%20CFA%20(23%20Sep%202020)%20Eng.pdf%20Eng.pdf)> accessed 22 April 2021
Statement from the Bar Council: Hong Kong – Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Bar Council, 7 July 2020) <https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/uploads/assets/e2457ee2-58eb-4390-8b03b731a9691dcb/HK-statement-July-2020.pdf> accessed 23 April 2021
Statement from the President of the UK Supreme Court, The Right Hon Lord Reed of Allermuir, 17 July 2020 <https://www.supremecourt.uk/news/role-of-uk-judges-on-the-hong-kong-court-of-final-appeal.html> accessed 29 April 2021
Statement of the Hong Kong Bar Association: The Law of the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”) on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (“HKSAR”), 1 July 2020 <https://www.hkba.org/sites/default/files/20200701%20HKBA%20statement%20on%20Safeguarding%20National%20%20Security%20in%20HKSAR.pdf> accessed 23 April 2021
books
Chan, C. and de Londras, F. ed. China's National Security: Endangering Hong Kong's Rule of Law? (Hart, 2020)
McConville, M. and Marsh, L. The Myth of Judicial Independence (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Young, S. N. M. and Ghai, Y. Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal: The Development of the Law in China's Hong Kong (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
articles & discussion
Ames, J. ‘Lord Neuberger: UK Judge Defies Critics to Extend Hong Kong Post for Three Years’ (The Times, 15 March 2021) <https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lord-neuberger-uk-judge-defies-critics-to-extend-hong-kong-post-for-three-years-mc06rrjxk> accessed 23 April 2021 [Paywall]
Ames, J. ‘You Should Quit Hong Kong’s Top Court Now, UK judges Are Told’ (The Times, 12 March 2021) <https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hong-kong-top-court-uk-judges-quit-china-mzf3cf6fr> accessed 23 April 2021 [Paywall]
‘Australian Judge Steps Down from Hong Kong Court over New National Security Law’ (The Guardian, 18 September 2020) <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/18/australian-judge-steps-down-from-hong-kong-court-over-new-national-security-law> accessed 22 April 2021
‘A Brief Overview of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal’ (Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, n.d.) <https://www.hkcfa.hk/en/about/overview/index.html> accessed 22 April 2021
Brooke-Holland, L. 'Hong Kong: The Joint Declaration' ((House of Commons Library Research Briefing, 5 July 2019) <https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8616/> accessed 23 April 2021
'China NPC: Beijing to Overhaul Hong Kong Electoral System' (BBC, 5 March 2021) <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-56264117> accessed 23 April 2021
Dixon, R. and Jackson, V. ‘Hybrid Constitutional Courts: Foreign Judges on National Constitutional Courts’ (Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 57:283) <https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5daf8b1ab45413657badbc03/t/5ee16a0196883773c63df32c/1591831042768/f-Dixon_Hybrid-Constitutional-Courts-Online.pdf> accessed 23 April 2021
Dziedzic, A. ‘Foreign Judges and Hong Kong’s New National Security Law’ (Commonwealth Judicial Journal, (2020) 25(2)) <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3705123> accessed 21 April 2021
Fife, R. ‘Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Urged to Step Down from Hong Kong Court (The Globe and Mail, 10 July 2020)
<https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-former-supreme-court-chief-justice-urged-to-step-down-from-hong-kong/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-former-supreme-court-chief-justice-urged-to-step-down-from-hong-kong/)> accessed 23 April 2021
Fok, J. ‘Judges from Other Common Law Jurisdictions in the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal’ (Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, 2017) <https://www.hkcfa.hk/filemanager/engagement/en/upload/43/D5_The%20Use%20of%20Non-local%20Judges%20in%20Overseas%20Jurisdictions.pdf> accessed 23 April 2021
Gélinas-Faucher, B. ‘In Good Conscience’ (National Magazine (Canadian Bar Association, 15 July 2020) <https://nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles/law/opinion/2020/in-good-conscience> accessed 21 April 2021
Hernández, J. C. 'Harsh Penalties, Vaguely Defined Crimes: Hong Kong’s Security Law Explained' (New York Times, 30 June 2020) <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/world/asia/hong-kong-security-law-explain.html> accessed 22 April 2021
Hong Kong Courts: British Judges (HL Deb. 22 March 2021, vol. 811 cols 607-610) <https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2021-03-22/debates/B84D8898-87D7-4716-AE01-60B21A0C7381/HongKongCourtsBritishJudges> accessed 23 April 2021
‘Hong Kong’s National Security Law: 10 Things You Need to Know (Amnesty International, 17 July 2020) <https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/07/hong-kong-national-security-law-10-things-you-need-to-know/> accessed 23 April 2020
‘Hong Kong Security Law: What Is It and Is It Worrying?’ (BBC, 30 June 2020) <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-52765838> accessed 21 April 2021
‘Hong Kong: What Is the Basic Law and How Does It Work?’ (BBC, 20 November 2019) <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-49633862> accessed 22 April 2021
Ma, G. ‘Strength and Fragility in Tandem: The Rule of Law in Hong Kong’ (The Bar Council of England and Wales Annual International Rule of Law Lecture 2015) <https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/uploads/assets/5ec4b90d-7318-47f6-b52255a58432877a/cjspeech11may2015.pdf> accessed 23 April 2021
Neuberger, D. 'Judges, Access to Justice, the Rule of Law and the Court of Final Appeal under “One Country Two Systems”' (University of Hong Kong, 13 September 2017) https://www.hkcfa.hk/filemanager/speech/en/upload/1195/Judges,%20Access%20to%20Justice,%20the%20Rule%20of%20Law%20and%20the%20Court%20of%20Final%20Appeal%20under%20%E2%80%9COne%20Country%20Two%20Systems%E2%80%9D.pdf accessed 5 May 2021
O’Mahony, D. ‘Why Hong Kong’s National Security Laws Are Incompatible with the Rule of Law’ (Bar Council Blog, 9 July 2020) <https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/why-hong-kong-s-national-security-laws-are-incompatible-with-the-rule-of-law.html> accessed 21 April 2021
Parker, G. ‘Britain Warns on Future of UK Judges in Hong Kong’ (Financial Times, 24 Novemner 2020) <https://www.ft.com/content/9d6ddd37-a315-4d08-bda1-b7c795aac12f> accessed 23 April 2021 [Paywall]
'Q&As on the Rule of Law and Judicial Independence' (Gray’s Inn, 9 March 2021) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGix3p4OFMk&t=7s> accessed 23 April 2021
Ramzy, A. ‘Hong Kong’s Courts Are Still Independent. Some Want to Rein Them In’ (New York Times, 30 November 2020) <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/world/asia/hong-kong-china-courts.html> accessed 23 April 2021
Riordan, P. ‘Hong Kong Bar Pleads with Foreign Judges to Keep Serving’ (Financial Times, 23 April 2021) <https://www.ft.com/content/027e77c0-3ab9-4638-8858-4f5471bb2a0e> accessed 23 April 2021 [Paywall]
Sumption, J. ‘Britain Should Avoid Undermining the Hong Kong Judiciary’ (The Times, 18 March 2021) <https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/britain-should-avoid-undermining-the-hong-kong-judiciary-2j7nmft5d> accessed 23 April 2021 [Paywall]
Tang, D. ‘Beijing Bans Hong Kong Judges in Treason Trials’ (The Times, 27 May 2020) <https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/beijing-bans-hong-kong-judges-in-treason-trials-c6r99s3p6> accessed 23 April 2021 [Paywall]
Yam, J. Approaching the Legitimacy Paradox in Hong Kong: Lessons for Hybrid Regime Courts (Law & Social Inquiry, Vol. 46, Issue 1) <https://doi.org/10.1017/lsi.2020.20> accessed 29 April 2021 [Paywall]
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