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    Quote Originally Posted by henkka:
    Where did you read she was the fourth choice and who were the other candidates ?
    No hard evidence but just based on discussion. Anyway it is hard to imagine someone so unprepared was the first choice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by civil_servant:
    Thanks Paul.
    Mr Zimmerman is hardly likely to be the reason. The chances of him winning the small circle election in the functional contingency must be close to zero as only one pro-authoritarian candidate is standing this time
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    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:
    No hard evidence but just based on discussion. Anyway it is hard to imagine someone so unprepared was the first choice.
    Agree, it seems odd that this was not sorted out prior to her taking the job.
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    The only crime was possibly lying (or not noticing factual inaccuracies) on the mortgage documents.
    Last edited by East_coast; 07-02-2018 at 04:09 PM.

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    Back in the news as the trial gets started.

    West Kowloon Court heard that the Buildings Department inspected Otto Poon Lok-to’s Villa de Mer property in Tuen Mun on January 9, 2018, and found a garden pool that was not on the approved building plans or the Lands Department’s aerial photographs taken on April 2, 2017.

    Poon, a senior member of the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers, pleaded not guilty in January to knowingly commencing or carrying out building works without obtaining approval from authorities and consent in writing.
    The offence carries a maximum sentence of a HK$400,000 fine and two years in prison under the Buildings Ordinance. Poon is the husband of Hong Kong’s justice chief Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah.
    https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...-justice-chief

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    Otto Poon deserves a nice prison sentence, these spouses of policitians or policitians are such a hypocritical bunch, they believe they are above the law

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    Quote Originally Posted by imparanoic:
    Otto Poon deserves a nice prison sentence, these spouses of policitians or policitians are such a hypocritical bunch, they believe they are above the law
    But they are.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by pin:
    But they are.....
    Mr r hui and Mr bow tie tsang thought they were, they came crashing down from their high horses

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    Time to get coining. What would be a good antonym for a kangaroo court?


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    Verdict: $20K fine for "bag of water placed in the garden". The bag of water has been dismantled.

    But Dr James Lau Chi-wang, a structural and geotechnical engineer for the defence, countered that the pool was neither a building nor structure. “It’s just a bag of water placed in the garden,” Lau testified last month.


    https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...ce-chief-found
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