Australian judge Anthony Gleeson, 85, ‘did not wish’ to renew his tenure as an overseas non-permanent justice on the apex court, citing his age, Hong Kong’s judiciary says.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) is distancing itself from Lord Nicholas Phillips’ broadside against Commonwealth countries and their dependence on the London-based court, who suggested 14 years ago that they had overstayed their.