Court Rejects Bid To Unseat DAB's Vincent Cheng
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2018-03-19 HKT 15:53
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The High Court on Monday rejected a bid for a legal challenge aimed at stripping newly elected lawmaker Vincent Cheng of his Kowloon West Legco seat.
The so-called “king of judicial reviews” Kwok Cheuk-kin initiated the court case last week, claiming that Cheng's pro-government DAB party supports the idea of Hong Kong independence.
Kwok said this was evident by the party's full name, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong.
But rejecting leave for the judicial review, Justice Anderson Chow said there was “no proper basis” for Kwok’s allegation.
The judge said the party's name means only “building up or advancement of Hong Kong through democracy” and the words in the name cannot be taken in isolation to mean that the DAB advocates the formation of Hong Kong as an independent state or country through democracy, as suggested by Kwok.
He also questioned whether the applicant had the legal right to bring the case in the first place, being as he lives on Cheung Chau and did not have a vote in the Kowloon West by-election that Cheng won on March 11.
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