MR. JUSTICE IS SUED FOR OWING NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTION FEES OF HK$6,900 IN HONG KONG
According to the Headline Daily of 8th January 2008, Mr. Justice WONG, Shiying of the Hong Kong High Court has earlier been sued at the minor monetary court by an upset newspaper peddler for having not paid for subscription fees of HK$6,900. Both parties have ultimately agreed to make outside court settlements. Mr. Justice WONG insists that he has not made mistakes, but agrees to pay the newspaper peddler HK$5,010.
The newspaper stand owner of Mr. LI, Yaojia states that Mr. WONG, Shiying, 64, subscribed a sort of financial newspaper via his stand during the period of January 2002 to October 2005, involving subscription fees of HK$6,978. The stand owner demanded him many times but failed, therefore, he had to resort to the court for claims.
Mr. WONG, Shiying appeared at the court yesterday, arguing that the newspaper peddler had never mailed him any bills. Later on, when demanded for the outstanding fees, Mr. WONG, Shiying mailed out a check of HK$1,440, but failed to reach the stand owner.
According to the Headline Daily of 8th January 2008, Mr. Justice WONG, Shiying of the Hong Kong High Court has earlier been sued at the minor monetary court by an upset newspaper peddler for having not paid for subscription fees of HK$6,900. Both parties have ultimately agreed to make outside court settlements. Mr. Justice WONG insists that he has not made mistakes, but agrees to pay the newspaper peddler HK$5,010.
The newspaper stand owner of Mr. LI, Yaojia states that Mr. WONG, Shiying, 64, subscribed a sort of financial newspaper via his stand during the period of January 2002 to October 2005, involving subscription fees of HK$6,978. The stand owner demanded him many times but failed, therefore, he had to resort to the court for claims.
Mr. WONG, Shiying appeared at the court yesterday, arguing that the newspaper peddler had never mailed him any bills. Later on, when demanded for the outstanding fees, Mr. WONG, Shiying mailed out a check of HK$1,440, but failed to reach the stand owner.
(Comments: Hong Kong is a common law society, different from Mainland China. The Judges in Hong Kong have good social status, highly respected and expensively paid in order to maintain their independent positions to issue fair judges and reasonable decisions pursuant to common laws on good faith. The current story, however, tells us another side of a Hong Kong judge, who may be treated too well, always living in no financial troubles and does not need concerning about the grassroots or ordinary persons’ daily life things, so that they do not even know they should pay or offer to pay their outstanding bills at intervals, unless billed or demanded years later. Mr. Justice Wong’s arguments obviously can not convince ordinary people or media readers. Presume that his agreements were legally supported, the normal living orders would have to be altered or amended. Once a person receives due services in ordinary life, he has to offer to pay for that, rather to simply wait for bills or demands, no speaking of waiting for three years, this is common sense. Ordinary persons all know about that, let along a highly respected judge with higher moral standards living in the developed society of Hong Kong, who should know right and wrong much better than others. In the developing country of Mainland China, should a taxpayer fail to pay taxes for excuses of not receiving any tax bills, he may be deemed as "evasions of tax responsibility” and may bear heavily-imposed liabilities)
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