Priscilla Leung
Dr the Honourable
Priscilla Leung Mei-fun
SBS, JP
梁美芬
Dr Priscilla LeungMember of the Legislative CouncilIncumbentAssumed office
1 October 2008Preceded byNew seatConstituencyKowloon WestPersonal detailsBorn18 November 1960 (age 53)
Hong KongNationalityChinesePolitical partyProfessional Forum
Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong KongSpouse(s)Prof. Wang GuiguoResidenceHong KongAlma materChinese University of Hong Kong (BSSc)
Renmin University (LLM, JSD)OccupationBarrister
Associate professorProfessionLegislative CouncillorReligionChristianityPriscilla LeungChinese梁美芬TranscriptionsMandarinHanyu PinyinLiáng Měifēn
Priscilla Leung Mei-fun SBS JP (Chinese:梁美芬; born 18 November 1960, Hong Kong) is aLegislative Councillor, representing theKowloon West constituency since 2008. She is also a member of Kowloon City DistrictCouncil.[1][2] She is a barrister and anassociate professor at the City University of Hong Kong's[3] School of Law, where her husband, Wang Guiguo, was the Dean.
LegCo member
ControversiesEdit
On 13 January 2010 she walked out from the LegCo chamber after fellow legislator Albert Chan had said "some people teach dog shit laws" ("教狗屎法律") in an apparent reference to Leung.[6] Chan refused to withdraw his comment and LegCo president Tsang Yok-sing subsequently ruled that no LegCo rules had been violated.
On 21 January 2010, in a response to the quasi-referendum on universal suffrage which was triggered by the resignation of five pan-democracy members of LegCo, Leung announced she would introduce a private member's bill which would forbid legislators from resigning unless they became ill or were convicted of a crime.[7] Ronny Tong criticised her move as a contravention of the Basic Law: he said such a bill would infringe the right to stand for elections protected under Article 26 and would be inconsistent with Article 74 which prohibits individual legislators from tabling bills that relate to the political structure.[8] She also went on record stating that the resignations of the five legislators contravened the Basic Law of Hong Kong. However, in spite of her background as a teacher of constitutional law, she failed to substantiate her claim.
On 25 January 2010, she stated that the LegCo resignations were a form of abuse, although such resignations are common in many parliamentary democracies. She also stated that amending the relevant legislation to prevent those who resigned from running in by-elections would put Hong Kong in line with practice in Britain. However, as the 2008 resignation and subsequent re-election of the former Chairman of the Conservative Party,David Davis, shows, quasi-referendums are perfectly legal in Britain. In 2014, she advocates the Hong Kong Government to establish a "Voluntary Army" formed by pro-Beijing armed force to oppress Hong Kong people as the Beijing Central Government has no confident in Hong Kong Police would oppress Hong Kong people like what they did in 1989 Beijing Tiananmen Square June Massacre.
Education
ReferencesEdit
Priscilla Leung biodata[dead link]Recipients of HKSAR Honours and Awards"Full-Time Staff, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong (CHK)". Cityu.edu.hk. Retrieved 22 March 2012."Battle for Kowloon West heats up". Thestandard.com.hk. 27 August 2008. Retrieved 22 March 2012.梁美芬社區足跡[1][dead link]"RTHK English News". Rthk.org.hk. Retrieved 22 March 2012."ˇ弒母殺妹魔童判入小欖". Singtao.com. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
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