Long Hair declares himself clever for exploiting the rules

After losing his court battle, the activist exploits a grey area to make his point

Veteran protester 'Long Hair' Leung Kwok-hung is calling himself clever after exploiting grey areas in the rules to make additional declarations during his swearing-in as a legislator.

Mr Leung shouted the declarations - allegiance to the Chinese people and upholding principles of democracy and freedom - before and after taking the official oath, then left the written document unsigned.

He had earlier lost a court battle to add his own words to the oath.

'I have just been clever - you need to be clever to defeat your opponents,' Mr Leung said.

A spokesman for the Legco secretariat said secretary-general Ricky Fung Choi-cheung, who had presided over Mr Leung's swearing-in, was satisfied that the legislator had 'sworn his oath in accordance to the requirements' of the law.

Mr Fung said adding signatures was only a convention and not required by law.