26 Jan 2000
CHAN WAH v. HANG HAU RURAL COMMITTEE AND OTHERS
- Citation
- CHAN WAH v. HANG HAU RURAL COMMITTEE AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV139/1999
Village representative elections are public affairs because of the public role of village representatives, statutory structure (Heung Yee Kuk), and active governmental involvement; exclusion of non-indigenous permanent residents from voting or standing in their village elections was unlawful as inconsistent with ICCPR Article 25 (Bill of Rights Article 21) and Basic Law Article 26 and, in the respects identified, contravened s.35 Sex Discrimination Ordinance; Secretary for Home Affairs (via District Officers) must consider these legal obligations before approving election results; accordingly…