Judge with Balls helps Hongkie Public Scrutinise Govt! Sinkies?

[Asterix]

Even the highly educated Sinkies are hopeless
Like Boss Sam here always eternally grateful
For all the wrong things like running water
Ask them to stand up for their own rights
Also got no balls so knowledge is useless
When it resides in the meek and timid

Retired judge William Waung Sik-ying backs full release of Lamma ferry disaster report
William Waung Sik-ying believes relatives could launch damages claim against government, saying full probe is a matter of public interest

A retired High Court judge believes victims and relatives of those killed in the Lamma ferry tragedy could demand the full release of a report into the disaster by launching civil proceedings against the government.

In a move likely to put pressure on officials to give a full public account of the 2012 collision that killed 39 people, William Waung Sik-ying said the internal investigation was a matter of public interest. The government has so far only released a summary of the 430-page report.

"The government is quite incredibly still trying to avoid the evil day and is desperate to minimise its responsibility in the whole affair," Waung said in an e-mail to the South China Morning Post. "I am very disturbed ... the government is taking the extraordinary position of not releasing the report, which is of course a matter of public interest."

Waung - who as leader of the Archives Action Group lodged a complaint to the ombudsman last year arguing for better management of Marine Department records - also criticised comments last week by Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung, who stressed the need for confidentiality. "The government's excuse of trying not to jeopardise possible future proceedings against the civil servants just does not wash," he said.

The damning report compiled by the Transport and Housing Bureau identified 17 marine officials - up to directorate level - possibly guilty of misconduct and said "suspected criminality" had been found in the course of the probe and transferred to police for investigation. It criticised the Marine Department's management and the "highly unsatisfactory" record keeping.

But the released summary did not reveal the identities of those liable. Relatives of those killed have urged lawmakers to invoke the powers and privileges laws of the Legislative Council to demand full disclosure.

Waung said relatives could possibly get hold of the full report by seeking legal aid so that " proceedings can be immediately brought against the government" for damages.

If no reasonable defence was put forth by the government, he said relatives could apply for a summary judgment - a ruling without a hearing. If the government objected, it would have to disclose its arguable defence.

University of Hong Kong legal scholar Eric Cheung Tat-ming said the arguable defence could include the investigation report.

"A judge will decide if the report is so sensitive as to jeopardise future criminal trials," Cheung said, adding that if the documents were deemed too sensitive, the judge could restrict access to only the families' counsel. But Cheung said a summary judgment might not be sufficient to cover such a complex issue.

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...waung-sik-ying-backs-full-release-lamma-ferry

 

[Asterix]

I see I see, Sinkies more interested in former Miss HK selling fish balls!

 

[Asterix]

Ok, Ok, let me try again:

Retired Sinkie Judge Kangaroo Tan makes more $$$ selling Mee Pok


Few in legal circles batted an eyelid when retired High Court judge William Waung Sik-ying yesterday slammed the government's decision to withhold the bulk of an investigation report into the 2012 Lamma sea tragedy.

Waung's high-profile criticism not only coincides with his tireless advocacy for an archives law, but is also backed by his expertise in admiralty law, built up over almost two and a half decades in the judicial role.

His outspoken style in the institution is no secret, either.

"As a judge, [Waung] has demonstrated compassion and a strong sense of justice," Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung, then Bar Association chairman and now secretary for justice, said of the outgoing judge at his farewell hearing in 2008.

That passion to do right continued into his retirement from the High Court, as Waung wasted no time in co-founding the Archives Action Group with retired District Court judge Chua Fi-lan and former Government Records Service directors Don Brech and Simon Chu Fook-keung.

Together, they shed light on the government's persistent inability to follow the examples of overseas jurisdictions and draft a law protecting the city's official records.

Yesterday Waung spoke out again, after the government released only part of a 430-page report on an internal investigation into one of Hong Kong's deadliest maritime disasters.

Waung's remarkable career on the bench began in 1984, a long tenure during which his sharp tongue and strongly worded judgments often left red faces among the lawyers and litigation parties.

In 2005, he called an HSBC banker "the ugly face of capitalism", saying the bank had breached its fiduciary duty by using economic duress and undue influence to make a company sell its property in the 1980s.

"It was the devil's work and commands what I can only call awe and horror for the total lack of morality or legality," he said in a 112-page judgment written in 14 months, which was later overturned by an upper court. "This for me is a most unhappy page in the history of the bank."

Then there were lighter moments. Waung laughed in court during a colourful trial in 2000 in which flamboyant billionaire Cecil Chao Sze-tsung appeared as a defence witness after former girlfriend Terri Holladay sued a legal firm. The judge described as "astronomical" the multimillion-dollar credit-card payments the pair had made.

And when Chao told the court he did not understand the meaning of the word "playboy", Waung said: "Everyone in the court knows what it means."

Notably, Waung was the only one of three appeal judges to back the attempt of property tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum in 2003 to overturn a lower court's ruling that she had fabricated her late husband's will. The Court of Final Appeal ruled in Wang's favour subsequently.

"When a judge reaches a decision," Waung later told reporters, "one couldn't only think about whether an upper court would think that it's wrong. One should rule in a way it should be ruled."

http://www.freenewspos.com/news/art...lliam-waung-a-judge-used-to-speaking-his-mind

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

3 posts by the same nick. Thread fail should have got screwball into the mix here sure to be popular.

 

[Leongsam]

I see I see, Sinkies more interested in former Miss HK selling fish balls!

Sinkies are not interested in injustices. If they were, CSJ would have been a far more successful politician.

Bread and butter issues or to put it more bluntly, "what's in it for me" policies garner far more interest.

 

[greenies]

We have judges ruling for Pappies here.
Whoever ruled against Pappies have been dispatched long ago.
Remember... within vs inside, loan vs give, etc.

Our Institutions are good at producing those kind of kingdom-style scholars.

 

[Manager]

yes, you are right.. most sinkies are mostly self-centered and hopeless, they are not concerned with what is happening outside sinkieland...

now if you would, can u tell me where can i get the best Bak Chor mee in singapore?

Ok, Ok, let me try again: