Thread by @kevinkfyam

Just adding to this: while most judges won’t plagiarise as blatantly as Wilson Chan, he is by no means the only mediocre plodder type who chose to join the #HongKong judiciary as a stable income safe haven. And when the judiciary is stacked with mediocrities, … (1/5)

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… it has a downstream impact on the quality of litigators working in #HongKong too. I can say hand on heart that at the elite end of the profession, litigators in HK are as intellectually bright as any in the common law world. However, as the quality of the judiciary … (2/5)

… deteriorates, it means that these really bright litigators are increasingly running cases in front of judges with vastly inferior intellects, meaning that it takes less intellectual effort (still a lot of grunt work of course) for these smart cookies to run rings … (3/5)

… around a bunch of mediocrities. Human nature being what it is, with the passage of time, the really bright litigators’ minds will also be dulled, with follow-on impact on quality: why use so much brains when it’s all so easy (in terms of thinking)? This, combined … (4/5)

… with top litigators in #HongKong having some of the most expensive charge-out rates in the world, means that businesses will increasingly find HK litigators to be poor value for money in terms of quality, which then impacts on HK as a dispute resolution centre. (5/5)