18 Facts About Alan Hoo

Alan Hoo Hong-ching, SBS, SC, JP is a Hong Kong barrister and politician.

Alan Hoo is the chairman of the Basic Law Institute, Hong Kong member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice-chairman of the Liberal Party.

Alan Hoo later studied law at London School of Economics and was called to the Bar in England in 1973 and in Hong Kong in 1975.

Alan Hoo was a member of the 400-member Selection Committee which was responsible for electing the first Chief Executive in 1996.

The Selection Committee was replaced by the Election Committee in which Alan Hoo has been a member through the Legal subsector until he was defeated in 2006.

Alan Hoo returned to the Election Committee through Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference subsector in 2011, in which he has been a Hong Kong delegate of the national advisory body.

Alan Hoo was made Justice of the Peace in 2002 and was awarded Silver Bauhinia Star in 2004.

Alan Hoo had been the leading pro-Beijing voice in the legal sector.

Alan Hoo said the move challenged the Chinese sovereignty and urged the government to amend law to fill the loophole.

In 2014 in response to the Occupy Central plan put forwarded by the pro-democrats to occupy the financial district in Hong Kong to pressure to the government to implement universal suffrage, Alan Hoo said that the People's Liberation Army should act on the basis of the national security law with the vacuum left by the absence of the Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23.

Alan Hoo joined the pro-business Liberal Party in 2015 during the time the party leader James Tien was stripped of his seat in the CPPCC after Tien urged Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to consider stepping down at the height of the 2014 Hong Kong protests.

Alan Hoo became the vice-chairman of the party in October 2016.

In May 2017, Alan Hoo shocked the public when he said all Hong Kong underground spaces belong to China.

Alan Hoo cited the 1997 decree by the PRC State Council which stipulated Hong Kong's border details in which Alan Hoo argued that the city's autonomy only covered the land and sea "surfaces".

Alan Hoo married Flora Cheong-Leen, a fashion designer and daughter of politician Hilton Cheong-Leen in 1992, but the marriage lasted only three months.

Alan Hoo remarried in 1999 to Yu Wai-man and had two children.

Alan Hoo claimed that Hoo had refused to take her phone calls for six months or to return HK$11 million in cash.

Alan Hoo denied the accusations and stressed that he loved his mother very much.