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...
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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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The Court of First Instance laid down judgment in favour of our Client, Mr. Roy Tam Hoi-pong, founder of Green Sense, for his challenge of decision to approve a major developer’s controversial plans to build homes in Hong Kong’s internationally renowned wetland habitat for waterfowls. The Court ordered the...
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Eastern district councillor Jocelyn Chau Hui-yan and co-defendant Lao Chak-kin, were charged with assaulting a policeman in North Point on the night of August 11, 2019. Eastern Magistrate Stanley Ho Chun-yiu acquitted the defendants with cost and said that the “two police officers’ testimonies are unreasonable and artificial. They...
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We represented Mr Martin Lee Chu-ming , Albert Ho Chun-yan, Au Nok-hin, Sin Chung-kai and Yeung Sum and obtained leave and interim injunction from Hon Mr Justice Coleman on 4 July 2020 following an emergency hearing for the application of judicial review challenging the phone search warrant obtained by the police...
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We represent the Applicant in the judicial review upon HKEAA’s decision to cancel one of the HKDSE questions this year in History Paper I. The expedited rolled-up hearing i.e. i) application for leave to apply for judicial review and ii) the substantive application for judicial review will be heard...
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We represent Ms. Lau Siu Lai and succeeded in the election petition challenging the decision of the returning officer on the validity of Ms. Lau’s nomination in the Legislative Council by-election for the Kowloon West Geographical Constituency held on 25 November 2018 . The judgment can be found here. ...
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The first technology court hearing of the Court of First Instance in the history of Hong Kong for the case Lui Chi Hang Hendrick v Independent Police Complaints Council via video conferencing would be held on 7 April 2020 (Tuesday). Brief case summary can be found here. Case Number: HCAL...
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The High Court has ordered MTR Corp. to disclose the CCTV footage from Prince Edward and Lai Chi Kok stations on the night of Aug 31, 2019, upon the personal injury claim against the Commission of Police. Judge of the Court of First Instance High Court Hon Anderson Chow...
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