Tuesday 1st May 2018
Dear Reader,
We've been labouring away to bring you this:
NEW ARTICLE
Justice
is blind, except for haircuts
The Court of Appeal rules that a prison order requiring men to have
short hair and allowing women to choose is not discriminatory, because of
societal norms for haircuts. We find substantial flaws in this reasoning. We
also find that the UK rule which HK inherited was amended by 1999 to remove the
discrimination, something that Long Hair's lawyers appear to have
overlooked. (1-May-2018)
RECENTLY ON WEBB-SITE
Carrie Lam's latest assault on free markets
The Government is
threatening to broaden rather than repeal a restriction on the resale of event
tickets in HK, a restriction which is probably unconstitutional anyway. This
runs against the interests of event organisers and performers who benefit from
the secondary market as we explain. It also runs against the broader public
interest in consumer choice. Let the market function, and repeal section 6 of
the POPE Ordinance. What next - a restriction on reselling wine or IPO shares
for a profit? (17-Apr-2018)
IN OTHER NEWS
SFC fines CN
Capital Management Ltd & Responsible Officers HK$1.2m
SFC, 24-Apr-2018
Ex-MTRC
manager jailed for HK$580k design service payments fraud
ICAC, 20-Apr-2018
Teresa Pong Seong & others v Norman Chan
HK
Court of First Instance, 19-Apr-2018
Dr Norman Chan Wing Hing is
jailed for 1 month for failing to pay the costs in a case he lost surrounding a
dispute with neighbours at 34 Braga Circuit, Kadoorie Hill, Kowloon. The court
finds that he transferred the shares in his clinic, Gallop Medical Centre Ltd,
to his wife to avoid payment.
Ex-Centaline supervisor charged with accepting HK$1.2m kickback from junior over
property transaction
ICAC, 16-Apr-2018
The residential transaction on Conduit Road was "over HK$590m" - that's
probably Flat A on 46/F (the top floor) of 39 Conduit Road, which went for
HK$594.76m or $107,435 per saleable sq ft. Nothing else on Conduit Road comes
close to that price.
HKSAR v Jack Chen Keen, Hao May (fka Wang May Yan) & Eric Yee Wenjye
HK Court of Appeal, 16-Apr-2018
The trio
lose their appeal against conviction in the Natural Dairy (NZ) case, in a
mammoth 260-page judgment after a 10-day appeal hearing. The judges are critical
of leading counsel for the 3 appellants for "swamping the Court with
inconsequential argument and material that serves to obfuscate and distract."
They were Clare Montgomery, QC, Ian Winter, QC, Graham Harris, SC and Edward
Fitzgerald, QC.
And much more besides...
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