Senior Counsels of Hong Kong - Martin Lee, Andrew Li, Johannes Chan, Audrey Eu, Wong Yan Lung, Alan Leong, Oswald Cheung, Senior Counsel (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Martin Lee, Andrew Li, Johannes Chan, Audrey Eu, Wong Yan Lung, Alan Leong, Oswald Cheung, Senior Counsel, Rimsky Yuen, Ronny Tong, Brook Bernacchi, John Joseph Swaine, Michael David Thomas, Robert John Whitehead, Andrew Liao. Excerpt: Alan Leong SC Alan Leong Kah-kit, SC (traditional Chinese: born 22 February 1958) was a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, representing the Kowloon East geographical constituency and the vice-chairperson of the Independent Police Complaints Council. Early career Leong graduated with an LLB from the University of Hong Kong and an LLM from the University of Cambridge . He was chairman of Hong Kong Bar Association from 2001 to 2003. Political career Sparked by the legislation of the Basic Law Article 23, Leong founded the Article 23 Concern Group in 2003 which later developed into the Article 45 Concern Group and the Civic Party . As chairperson of Hong Kong Bar Association, he mobilized many barristers to participate in the July 1 protests . He won a seat in the Legislative Council in the 2004 election. Chief Executive election 2007 Leong was nominated by the Civic Party as its party candidate for the Chief Executive election in 2007. He was also supported by the pan-democratic group, including the Democratic Party . Leong later secured 132 nominations and became the first pro-democracy candidate to succeed in joining the Chief Executive election. In the end Leong lost to Donald Tsang in the CE election on 25 March 2007, gaining 123 votes from the 800-member Election Committee. "Five Constituencies Referendum" In January 2010, Leong, and other four lawmakers, Albert Chan, Tanya Chan, Leung Kwok-hung and Wong Yuk-man resigned. But they claimed they will participate the by-election, and treat the by-election as a "referendum " to ...