{"id":11251,"date":"2021-01-21T13:43:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T13:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3118733\/senior-lands-official-takes-legal-action-against-boss"},"modified":"2021-01-21T13:43:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T13:43:59","slug":"senior-lands-official-takes-legal-action-against-boss-after-waiting-eight-years-for-approval-to-build-houses-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/senior-lands-official-takes-legal-action-against-boss-after-waiting-eight-years-for-approval-to-build-houses-in-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior lands official takes legal action against boss after waiting eight years for approval to build houses in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"A senior Lands Department official in Hong Kong and her husband have taken legal action against her boss for acting \u201cillegally and unreasonably\u201d in handling the couple\u2019s application to build houses, filed eight years ago.Department assistant director Anita Lam Ka-fun and her surveyor husband Thomas Tang Chiu-man on Wednesday applied for a judicial review, accusing the lands director of failing to determine their rebuilding application, first submitted on October 10, 2012.The government was also\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3118733\/senior-lands-official-takes-legal-action-against-boss\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Lands Department official in Hong Kong and her husband have taken legal action against her boss for acting \u201cillegally and unreasonably\u201d in handling the couple\u2019s application to build houses, filed eight years ago.Department assistant director A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":996,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/996"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11252,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11251\/revisions\/11252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}