Candy Lee

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 Ho Kwan Yiu

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Ho K. C. & Fong

18/F, HENLEY BUILDING, 5 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, HONG KONG

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 21st-22nd July 2019

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Please see enclosed

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Report from Apple Daily dated 22nd July 2019

Video downloaded from the internet
Candy 23 07 2019
Candy Lee

Ma On Shan

28219905
Candy 23 07 2019
Dear Sirs,

1. I write to complain about the conduct of Mr. Ho Kwan Yiu in the early morning
of 22nd July 2019 in Yuen Long.

Facts

2. It is widely reported that starting from the late night of 21st July 2019, a gang of
men dressed in white t-shirts entered Yuen Long West Rail Station and beat up
citizens in the station area, in the paid station area, and even in the train
compartment.

3. See, for example:-

a. A video posted by Mingpao Weekly;1

b. A video of the process taken by a Stand News Journalist;2

c. A video taken by a Stand News journalist while being beaten up;3

d. A news article from Stand News.4

4. The attack resulted in many injuries to ordinary citizens, including to a Stand News
journalist and a former TVB journalist.5

5. There is also a widely circulating video from the same night in which Mr. Ho
publicly expressed his support to a group of men dressed in white t-shirts in Yuen
Long. Mr. Ho made a thumbs-up gesture and clapped his hands to show his
approval to these men. In the video, he is also shown to shake the hand of a man
in white and say “ ”. The video is accessible online6 and a copy thereof is
enclosed hereto.

1 https://www.facebook.com/mpwculture/videos/1044766625715944
2 https://www.facebook.com/standnewshk/videos/407353793207073/
3 https://www.facebook.com/standnewshk/videos/477630836335546
4

https://thestandnews.com/politics/%E5%85%83%E6%9C%97%E7%AB%99%E6%83%A1%E7%85%9E%E6
%89%8B%E6%8C%81%E6%9C%A8%E6%A3%92%E6%89%93%E4%BA%BA-
%E5%B8%82%E6%B0%91%E8%A8%98%E8%80%85%E8%A2%AB%E8%BF%BD%E6%89%93%E5%8F%
97%E5%82%B7-
%E6%9C%AA%E8%A6%8B%E8%AD%A6%E5%93%A1%E5%9F%B7%E6%B3%95/?fbclid=IwAR3im2YUL
quzzFcUvMGbmI28mriNq0ahnyojFFD5iSyctJl6HwfpRr6iP9U
5

https://thestandnews.com/politics/%E5%85%83%E6%9C%97%E6%83%A1%E7%85%9E%E7%BE%A4%E6
%AF%86%E8%A8%98%E8%80%85%E5%B8%82%E6%B0%91-%E7%AB%8B%E5%A0%B4-
%E8%A8%98%E8%80%85%E9%9B%99%E6%89%8B-%E5%8F%B3%E8%82%A9-
%E9%A0%AD%E9%83%A8%E5%8F%97%E5%82%B7/?fbclid=IwAR1-
93ZMgNHiPjUDNclHJ8oTDETEgb2-JEBAA_3wL8hXwct3WTu5xaMcmi0
6 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2320755911338882
 6. This is also reported in Apple Daily. The report is accessible online7 and a copy
thereof is enclosed hereto.

7. The man who greeted Mr. Ho and the man whose hand Mr. Ho shook were each
captured in the videos taken in the Yuen Long West Rail Station as members of the
gang who beat up ordinary citizens, as below:-

7 https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/realtime/article/20190722/59848508
Principles

8. The criminal, indiscriminate violence employed by the gang of men in white shirts
in Yuen Long was shocking to any right-thinking member of the public. One would
have thought that it should be unthinkable for any self-respecting person to be
willingly associated with such a criminal gang or any member thereof. Mr. Ho not
only proves this wrong, he appears to be publicly commending members of the gang
for their actions on the night of 21st-22nd July 2019.

9. It is provided in Principle 1.02 of the Hong Kong Solicitors’ Guide to Professional

Conduct that “a solicitor is an officer of the Court (see s 3(2) of the Legal
Practitioners Ordinance (Cap. 159), and should conduct himself appropriately in
professional and private matters”. As per Ma CJHC (as he then was) in A Solicitor v
The Law Society of Hong Kong (unreported) CACV 107/2005, 7th July 2006 at
paragraph 79: “A solicitor is a member of an honourable profession, an officer of
the court and one of the three bodies (together with the courts and barristers)
primarily responsible for the administration of justice. The public’s perception of a
solicitor is exactly these terms.”

10. I take the view that a) Mr. Ho’s conduct is unbefitting of a solicitor, and b) contrary
to principle 1.02 of the Guide and/or Rule 2 of the Solicitors’ Practice Rules (Cap.
159H) in that Mr. Ho did not conduct himself appropriately but conducted himself
in a manner likely to bring the profession into disrepute.

11. As a person with a public profile (including being a former President of the Law
Society), Mr. Ho is well known to be a solicitor. Mr. Ho’s acts in the public eye
would and do in fact affect the public perception of solicitors.

12. Moreover, the charge of conduct unbefitting of a solicitor is not limited to acts
performed in the capacity of a solicitor (Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong [240.081], A
Solicitor v The Law Society of Hong Kong (unreported) CACV 107/2005, 7th July 2006
at paragraph 82). Similarly, Principle 1.02 of the Guide explicitly states that a
solicitor is to conduct himself appropriately in professional and private matters”
(emphasis added). The Commentary to Principle 1.02 continues: “A solicitor,
whether practising or not, is an officer of the Court. Certain standards of behaviour
are required of a solicitor, as an officer of the Court and as a member of the
profession, in his business activities outside legal practice and in his private life” (emphasis
added).

13. I find the conduct of Mr. Ho abhorrent and a disgrace to the profession, and hence
ask that the Law Society do take prompt disciplinary action accordingly. I look
forward to hearing from the Law Society in relation to progress in this case.
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