Lam Cheuk-ting
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The Honourable Lam Cheuk-ting |
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| 林卓廷 | |
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| Member of the Legislative Council | |
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Assumed office 1 October 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Emily Lau |
| Constituency | New Territories East |
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| Born | 1977 (age 39–40) Hong Kong |
| Nationality | Hong Kong Chinese |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Residence | Sha Tin, New Territories |
| Alma mater | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Religion | Christianity |
Lam Cheuk-ting (Chinese: 林卓廷; born 1977) is a Democratic Party politician in Hong Kong. He is a former investigator of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and chief executive of the Democratic Party. He is current member of the North District Council for Shek Wu Hui. He was elected to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 2016 through New Territories East.
Lam graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1999, studying Government and Public Administration. After graduation, he joined the Democratic Party and became assistant of Albert Ho. He was transferred to Democratic Party's Legislative Council Secretariat in 2001 and became assistant of party's chairman in 2003, having been serving Yeung Sum, Lee Wing-tat and Albert Ho. In 2006 when the Democratic Party set up a five-member investigation commission on the allegation of some senior members involving in spying activities of Beijing, he became the secretary of the commission.
He left the party and joined the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) as an investigator in 2006. He returned to the Democratic Party as chief executive in 2011, succeeding Chan Ka-wai who quit after being caught visiting a one-woman brothel.
Lam is a spokesman of the Property Owners' Anti Bid-Rigging Alliance against an alleged bid-rigging scandal in Garden Vista, where he is a resident, as well as the alleged scandals in other flats. He was also involved in parallel trading issue, which was criticized for affecting the daily livelihood of local residents especially in North District, as a coordinator of the Sheung Shui Parallel-Goods Monitoring Group.
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