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Former Hong Kong opposition legislator Leung Kwok-hung grabbed documents at the Legislative Council meeting and was previously convicted of "contempt of the Legislative Council." Today (2nd), the Hong Kong High Court ruled that the trial judge's judgment was wrong and ordered that the case be returned to the Magistrates' Court for a new trial.
According to hong Kong's "East Net" and Hong Kong's Dagong Wenhui all media reports, in November 2016, leung Kwok-hung, while still a member of the Legislative Council, was suspected of forcibly snatching the binder that the then Deputy Secretary for Development, Ma Shaoxiang, had placed on the table at a meeting of the Housing Affairs Committee of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, and handed it over to another opposition legislator, Zhu Kaidi, to read the confidential documents in the binder without Ma Shaoxiang's consent, causing disruption and interrupting the meeting.
Leung Kwok-hung snatched Ma Shaoxiang's binder from the table at the Legislative Council meeting. Source: Hong Kong "East Net"
Leung was later charged with "contempt of the Legislative Council", but the judge ruled in 2018 that the charge did not apply to members of parliament, and Leung was not convicted of "contempt of the Legislative Council" and was found not guilty.
Liang Guoxiong was expelled from the chamber after grabbing documents that day. Source: Hong Kong "East Net"
The Department of Justice of Hong Kong appealed to the Court of Appeal of the High Court of Hong Kong, which today (2 February) issued a written judgment ruling that the judge's judgment was in error of law and ordered the case to be returned to the Magistrates' Court for a new trial.
Leung Kwok-hung only sent a representative of the law firm to receive the verdict today, and he himself did not appear in court.
In his previous statement, the Department of Justice had stated that although members enjoyed immunity from civil or criminal proceedings in their words and deeds in the Chamber, this immunity was not absolute, and Leung's act of "snatching documents" on that day affected the Legislative Council and hindered other members from exercising their privileges, which constituted an offence and should not be exempted.