A DISTRICT Court judge intends to give evidence in a case where he faces allegations of practising a deliberate fraud on a magistrate.
Christopher Chan Cheuk has also instructed solicitors to represent him in the case, arising from legislator Emily Lau Wai-hing's private prosecution of the Xinhua director.
It would be one of the first times a judge has filed evidence in circumstances of this kind.
The judge, who was Ms Lau's solicitor before he joined the Judiciary, has been accused of deliberately misleading magistrate Garry Tallentire during a hearing last April.
He persuaded the magistrate to issue a summons alleging that Xinhua director Jiang Enzhu had committed a breach of data privacy laws.
Alan Hoo, SC, for Mr Jiang, is seeking to block the private prosecution with an action at the Court of First Instance.
He has accused Judge Chan of deliberately failing to tell the magistrate that Mr Jiang was not the director of Xinhua when Ms Lau's request for information was received or when the time limit for a reply had passed.
