Hong Kong waiter Ricky Chan strikes again, targeting same six pan-democrats in new lawsuit
Former chief secretary Anson Chan reprimands government for commencing separate legal proceedings against four legislators
In a claim filed at the High Court on Thursday, restaurant worker Ricky Chan Ka-wai asked for pan-democrats Cheng Chung-tai, Eddie Chu Hoi-dick, Nathan Law Kwun-chung, “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung, Shiu Ka-chun and Dr Edward Yiu Chung-yim to be removed from their Legislative Council seats because they had failed to be sworn in according to Article 104 of the Basic Law and Section 21 of the Oaths and Declarations Ordinance.
The claimant accused Yiu of changing the form as prescribed by inserting extra phrases into the oath. The other five pan-democrats were targeted for adding words or using props when they took their oaths.
Ricky Chan requested that the court issue an injunction restraining the group of six from acting as Legco members.
The waiter also named Legco president Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen as a defendant alongside Legco secretary general Kenneth Chen Wei-on, who had respectively validated the lawmakers’ oaths on October 18 and during the previous week.