Deng Fei, a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, was involved in the election of the Legislative Council election the year before, and failed to put a segment of election advertisements and electronic texts on the central platform for review. Dishonesty, request immunity from punishment.
Judge Gao Haowen of the High Court today (8th) handed down his judgment, accepting that Deng’s election assistant may not have uploaded the video due to his busy schedule. He also pointed out that Deng had uploaded 136 election advertisements, but only one section was forgotten, and he believed that he had no intention of hiding it. Therefore, his application was approved, but Deng had to pay 35,000 yuan in legal fees to the Department of Justice.
The applicant, Deng Fei, who is also the vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Educators, and the respondent, the Secretary for Justice.
Because Deng failed to upload the electronic texts of election advertisements and materials to the central platform for inspection within the specified time, he requested to be exempted from the relevant regulations. as a result of.
Deng Fei, a member of the Legislative Council, asked the court for immunity because he failed to upload an election advertisement within the time limit.
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The assistant pointed out that Deng met people from different circles every day
The judge revealed in the judgment that Mr. Chen, Deng's election agent, had admitted that he had not uploaded the video due to negligence. Chen explained that during the election campaign, Deng had to meet with people from different sectors 3 to 5 times a day, and all of them It was arranged by Chen Yiren.
When Chen was processing the election declaration in January 2022, he discovered that the video had not been uploaded. He sent the DVD of the video to the Election Management Commission in March of the same year.
Deng also admitted in his affidavit that he handed over all the declarations to Chen, but he had the responsibility to ensure that nothing was missed, and said that he had reminded Chen to upload the video.
The official pointed out that only one advertisement was not uploaded and considered to be harmless
The judge pointed out that the Department of Justice pointed out that Deng had uploaded about 136 election advertisements to the designated platform, and only one video was missing.
The judge accepted that Chen's work was heavy and negligent, and there was no evidence that he had malicious intentions, and the video had been uploaded to Facebook for public viewing, so it was obvious that he had no intention of hiding the video, so Deng's application was approved.
Case number: HCMP939/2022
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