Minority shareholders get a stern talking to
High Court Justice Susan Kwan Shuk-hing (above) is not a woman to be trifled with.
Presiding over the hearing into whether vote rigging was involved in the shareholders' decision to go along with chairman Richard Li Tzar-kai's plans to privatise PCCW, she allowed personal submissions from minority shareholders who could not afford to be represented by lawyers yesterday.
However, as her patience began to run out after listening to a number of similar complaints from individuals, she was moved to announce: 'If you have nothing to add to what I have heard from the barristers, I will send you back to your seat.'
Undaunted, a diminutive lady wearing a black cardigan took the stand and asked the judge: 'Why has PCCW not paid us our dividend yet?'
Justice Kwan narrowed her eyes behind her school-mistress glasses and immediately told the woman: 'Please go back to your seat!'
