On 23 August 2016, the Deceased, a 14-year-old boy who was mentally handicapped, fell from a 3rd Floor window of Hong Kiu Home (康橋之家), a care home for mentally handicapped persons. A Coroner’s Inquest was conducted on 27 April 2021 – 3May 2021. Ho Tse Wai & Partners represented...
Read more On 4 March 2021, Chief Magistrate Victor So granted bail to 15 of the 47 Defendants for having sufficient grounds to believe that they would not continue to endanger national security if they were released on bail. The Secretary for Justice immediately applied for a review, but later withdrew...
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Mr. Leung Kwok Hung (aka Long Hair) was granted leave to appeal to the Court of Final Appeal against the Court of Appeal’s ruling that section 17(c) of the Legislative Council (Powers and Privileges) Ordinance (“LC(PP)O”) is applicable to members of the LegCo for conduct within LegCo proceedings. The...
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In the case of Tung King Lei v Ng Ting Lam Kudama and Others (HCAL 254/2020) [2021] HKCFI 514, the Petitioner, Ms. Tung Kin Lei, the candidate of Tai Wai Constituency of Shatin District in the District Council election held on 24 November 2019, lodged an election petition against...
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Six defendants have been acquitted of conspiracy to riot as well as an alternative count of conspiracy to take part in an unlawful assembly, between September 28 and October 1 in 2019 after police raided a Wan Chai flat on National Day that year and discovered paraphernalia commonly used...
Read moreHo Tse Wai & Partners Wishing you a Happy and Prosperous Year of the Ox! (Written by our partner Mr. Albert Ho)
Read moreStatement of Ho Tse Wai & Partners We refer to the police investigation conducted at our firm’s office earlier today. The investigation is unrelated to the work of our firm. As investigations are still ongoing, we refrain from commenting on the matter. We assure that the confidentiality of client...
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Human Rights First announced today that it will award the 2020 Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty to Hong Kong human rights defender, Albert Ho. Albert Ho is a veteran Hong Kong lawyer and advocate whose career in human rights and political activism stretches back almost four decades. A...
Read more The Court of Final Appeal ruled that the Correctional Service Department (“CSD”)’s differential hair-cutting requirement for male and female inmates prescribed in Standing Order 41-05 issued by the Commissioner of Correctional Services constitutes discrimination and violates the Sex Discrimination Ordinance as well as the Basic Law. While CSD argued...
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The Court of First Instance laid down judgment today in favour of the Applicants and ruled that the failure of the Commissioner to require police officers to display their unique identification numbers and the failure of the Government to put in place an adequate system to investigate potential cases...
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