Editorial﹕Ken Tsang's punishment
文章日期:2017年10月12日

【明報專訊】A complaint was filed against Ken Tsang (the victim of the seven-policemen case) that he breached social workers' code of professional conduct. We gather that the Social Workers Registration Board (the Board) has eventually decided Tsang be given a written warning and his licence should not be suspended. The disciplinary panel suggested that his licence be suspended for half a year. Now the Board has rejected that suggestion in favour of giving him a written warning. What has caused the twist? The public has been kept in the dark. And it is doubtful that the Board will disclose in detail the grounds for rejecting that suggestion when the appeal period expires. The seven-policemen case has left in society a deep scar, and people very much concern themselves with whether the seven police officers and Tsang have been properly punished. It is no longer purely the profession's internal matter what punishment the Board should have meted out to Tsang. The process of determining the punishment seems too opaque to evidence the Board's impartiality in handling the case. The Board is obligated to convince citizens of its impartiality by giving them a detailed account.

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