A lobby group planning to take the government to court over language teaching for ethnic minorities says it will have to rethink its approach to the case, having earlier discussed it with Equal Opportunities Commission chairman Lam Woon-kwong.
The group, Hong Kong Unison, fears Lam's decision to keep his EOC job and serve as Executive Council convenor will affect the case, its executive director, Fermi Wong Wai-fun said yesterday.
Wong said she had told Lam just before his Exco appointment about the group's strategy for taking the Education Bureau to court.
'We now have to map out a new set of strategies,' Wong said.
The case is the only specific example so far put forward of a possible conflict of interest arising from Lam's dual role by critics of the arrangement. Lam, who had come under pressure to give up one of the two roles, said on Wednesday he would serve out his term as EOC chairman, which ends in January.
Hong Kong Unison had planned to file a formal complaint with the Equal Opportunities Commission this year and take the Education Bureau to court for violating the racial discrimination ordinance.