The Court of Appeal has dismissed a legal challenge by Leung Kwok-hung over the High Court's decision to disqualify him as a legislator. Leung, from the League of Social Democrats, lost his Legco seat for "failing to take his oath of office properly" in October 2016. He had held up a yellow umbrella – a symbol of the 2014 Occupy movement – while reading his oath, and he also ripped up a copy of Beijing's framework for political reform in Hong Kong.
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