Ambrose Lam San-keung is a Hong Kong solicitor who served as the member of Legislative Council, representing Legal constituency.
10 Facts About Ambrose Lam
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Ambrose Lam previously served as president of the Law Society of Hong Kong from 2013 until his resignation in 2014.
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Ambrose Lam gained widespread attention from the Hong Kong media in 2014, when he made numerous controversial comments supporting the 2014 Hong Kong electoral reform consultation and the Chinese Communist Party.
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Ambrose Lam resigned as the President of the Law Society of Hong Kong on 19 August 2014 after a motion of no confidence was passed against him by members of the Law Society Council on 14 August 2014.
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Ambrose Lam led 12 candidates to participate in the 2011 Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector elections, all of which are council members, though all of them failed to get a seat.
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Ambrose Lam's views sparked widespread criticism from the legal sector.
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Ambrose Lam's views sparked widespread criticism from the legal sector, of which many believed that the judiciary should not be counted as part of the administration due to Hong Kong's separation of powers.
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Hong Kong's former Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal, Andrew Li, expressed "great concern" towards Ambrose Lam's comments, commenting that judges should not be pro or anti anyone under the principle of judicial independence.
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Ambrose Lam refused to answer the reporter's question in English, saying that "he already provided the answer in Chinese", and that "the reporters can translate it into English".