Woman charged with using fake papers to get into HKU hires new senior counsel
Li Sixuan, 28, requests court adjournment as she says newly hired senior counsel Martin Hui will need more time to negotiate with prosecution
A mainland Chinese student charged with using a fake certificate from an Ivy League university in the US to get into a top Hong Kong tertiary education institution has hired a senior defence lawyer and requested a court adjournment.
Li Sixuan, 28, returned to Sha Tin Court on Friday and said that newly hired senior counsel Martin Hui Siu-ting would need more time to negotiate with the prosecution over her three criminal charges.
Li was charged with making a false statement for the purpose of obtaining an entry permit, obtaining services by deception and possessing a false instrument.
She claimed she got a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from Columbia University and submitted false credentials to the Immigration Department in June 2022.
Li used the alleged false documents to apply for the Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics programme at the University of Hong Kong, into which she was accepted.
The mainland student’s legal representative told Acting Principal Magistrate Cheang Kei-hong that the defendant had changed lawyers after the last adjournment in February and wanted Hui to defend her.