CUHK alumni lose legal bid to overturn election ban over ‘scandalous’ conduct
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Two CUHK alumni, Walter Tse Wai-lok and Anthony Suen Ho-yin, lost their legal challenge against their disqualification from the university's convocation standing committee election in a ruling delivered Friday. The pair were barred from running in the February 2023 election due to their pro-independence views or convictions related to the 2019 anti-government protests. They filed for judicial review in November 2023, claiming the university denied them a hearing before disqualification. Mr. Justice Russell Coleman ruled against them, citing their failure to file the bid within three months and the committee's lack of public functions justifying intervention. The judge stated that even if successful, the ruling wouldn't change the committee's conclusion that their candidacy would bring the convocation into disrepute, given the gravity of their past conduct and the prevailing political climate.
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