Take your food elsewhere: Hong Kong court bans illegal hawkers from open spaces near local mall
High Court ruling affects area located on Tuen Mun housing estate, but at least one vendor is defiant
Illegal food hawkers were to be banned from the open spaces near a shopping mall on a Tuen Mun housing estate where “altercations” took place around the recent Lunar New Year holiday, the High Court ordered on Friday.
But an unfazed street vendor said he would continue to do business on his portable food cart in the neighbourhood.
"We are mobile," the hawker, who only identified himself by his surname Cheuk, told the Post.
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At a hearing on Friday, High Court deputy judge Arjan Sakhrani questioned whether it would be reasonable to stop hawkers from entering the Leung King Estate.
He was responding to an application by a major tenant at the Leung King Plaza shopping mall for an interlocutory injunction against illegal hawkers in the estate. The writ was not issued against any specific defendant.
The judge queried whether Uni-China Market Management, which had filed the petition, intended to have a court order applied to an area larger than it was entitled to.
