A Hong Kong High Court judge previously reprimanded for plagiarism has been found to have done so again, after an appeal court determined that almost 95 per cent of a previous judgment was lifted from the defendant’s counsel.
In a ruling dated July 15, which came to light on Tuesday, a panel of three Court of Appeal judges found that Mr Justice Wilson Chan Ka-shun had engaged in “impermissible judicial copying” in a case he oversaw in 2024.
The original case stemmed from a dispute between Nam...