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Tai Po fire inquiry: Lawyer's comments on alarm effectiveness draw judge's rebuke

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A lawyer representing a director of China Status Development and Engineering faced rebuke from a judge for suggesting that fire alarms would not have saved lives during a deadly blaze in Tai Po. The lawyer argued that residents had less than 10 minutes to escape even with prompt alerts. This occurred during closing speeches before an independent committee investigating the fire, which claimed 168 lives and displaced thousands. The committee also heard proposals from the Urban Renewal Authority and the Competition Commission aimed at preventing anticompetitive practices in the construction sector. AI

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Tai Po fire inquiry: Lawyer's comments on alarm effectiveness draw judge's rebuke

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Brian Wong,Leopold Chen ·

    Claim that fire alarms would not have saved lives in Tai Po blaze draws rebuke

    Residents of Hong Kong’s blaze-ravaged Wang Fuk Court would still have died even if the housing estate’s fire alarms had been working during last year’s inferno, a contractor has suggested, prompting the judge overseeing a public inquiry into the disaster to question whether he w…

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