Former Hong Kong leader CY Leung loses High Court bid to name teachers guilty of professional misconduct over 2019 protests
- Company founded by Leung had demanded to know identities of teachers, their schools and nature of their misconduct relating to 39 complaint cases
- Court finds Education Bureau was ‘fully justified’ to refuse to release the information and its decision was ‘entirely reasonable’
The High Court on Tuesday threw out a judicial review application by 803 Funds after finding the Education Bureau was “fully justified” to refuse to disclose the information and its decision was “entirely reasonable”.
“There are good reasons given by [the bureau] in the final decision why the withheld information should not be disclosed to unrelated parties like the applicant,” Mr Justice Anderson Chow Ka-ming wrote.
The company, which Leung founded in 2019 to trace demonstrators involved in criminal activities, wanted to learn the identities of teachers, their schools and the nature of the misconduct relating to 39 complaint cases substantiated as of last year, with the intention of sharing the information with parents.
Secretary for Education Kevin Yeung Yun-hung twice rejected the company’s request to disclose the information last year, based on two grounds provided by the Code on Access to Information concerning privacy and third-party consent.
