So Mr Hui was one of the first victims of the post-2019 trawl through the previous lives of likely suspects for items on which a belated prosecution could be constructed. Nothing makes you a target of the law and order industry like being a victim of police abuse. He was also conspicuous in attempting to sooth irate protesters and police during the anti-extradition bill protests, and ate a lot of pepper spray as a result. Mr Hui was, in the old days when we had such things, a rather critical and disorderly legislator. This brings us to the case of Mr Ted Hui. Recently, though, the trend towards meaningless prosecutions reached its logical conclusion: a prosecution which has no practical function at all.
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There is not much point, for example, in taking some political target into court when the outcome is going to add a few days to the multiple months he is already serving, or the years he is likely to be facing when the trial he is awaiting (in custody) finally crawls before a judge or three. Statue of Themis on the Old Supreme Court Building. But they could at least perhaps be persuaded to be a bit more discerning in the cases which they take to court. No doubt it would be a major task for a new Secretary for Justice to persuade his troops to work faster. But, take it from me, it is by international standards a disgrace. I will not bore you with a repetition of my previous complaints about the time it takes to get a case into court in Hong Kong. However, prosecutors ought to be different.
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Meaningless prosecutions waste the courts’ time as Hong Kong defendants face long wait for justice - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP Closeīut the occasional wait for a busy doctor or an absent absent-minded professor is nothing compared with the treatment you get from the courts, where everyone is instructed to turn up at 9 o’clock, the magistrate doesn’t start sitting until 10, and the matter you are involved in may not come up until the afternoon, if it isn’t moved to another day altogether.įor senior judges time to be served can be measured in decades, so keeping you in suspense for a month or two doesn’t count.
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