Hong Kong Barrister Martin Lee SC (李柱銘資深大律師) A Convicted Criminal, Says Judge Woodcock in DCCC 536/2020 [2021] HKDC 398

Hong Kong Barrister Martin Lee SC (李柱銘資深大律師) committed the crimes of [1] Organizing an unauthorized assembly; and [2] Knowingly taking part in an unauthorized assembly, and was thereafter on 1 April 2021 duly convicted as a criminal by Her Honour Judge Woodcock in DCCC 536/2020 [2021] HKDC 398.  His disgusting criminal activity and subsequent conviction had been widely reported in the press.  He had therefore by his own disgusting criminal activity brought the Bar into disrepute.


https://legalref.judiciary.hk/lrs/common/ju/ju_frame.jsp?DIS=134671&currpage=T

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3127881/hong-kong-protests-jimmy-lai-and-six-ex-lawmakers

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