Hong Kong student who was disciplined over Baptist University’s mandatory Mandarin requirement launches legal challenge against suspension
Chinese medicine student Andrew Chan said he had been subjected to ‘procedural unfairness’
A Baptist University student who was disciplined for taking part in a protest against the Hong Kong school’s Mandarin language graduation requirement has launched a legal challenge to overthrow the decision.
Chinese medicine student Andrew Chan Lok-hang said in a judicial review application filed to the High Court on Friday he had been subjected to “procedural unfairness” when the university’s Student Affairs Committee upheld a disciplinary panel’s decision that his behaviour had violated school rules.
The applicant is now seeking a court order to quash the decision, as well as cover legal costs.
“I have not been fairly treated at all, I believe I have sufficient justification for the case, so I hope to seek justice,” Chan said.
The controversy centres over a protest involving Chan and other students, who had stayed at the school’s language centre for eight hours in January, despite repeated requests to leave the centre, according to the writ.
The disciplinary panel said Chan “threw a tantrum at the centre with intimidating gestures towards the staff”.
The school suspended him for eight days and required that he serve 40 hours of community service on campus and write an apology letter.