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HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB (THE)
香港賽馬會


Vatican/ Jockey Club election guide
Your guide to the forthcoming (s)elections of new leaders in these venerable institutions. (12-Mar-2013)
Info on the HK Jockey Club's land leases
HK Government, 18-Jan-2012
Four in court for alleged bribery and deception over Jockey Club membership
ICAC, 16-May-2011
We note that Robert Woo Ka Ki and Daniel Tong Kam Pui jointly owned a race horse called "Quick Money" - yes, really!
Mucking out the Jockey Club
We look at the structural incentive for corruption in membership admission to HKJC, and its small-circle voting system, highlighted by yesterday's arrest of 3 of the 200 Voting Members. If private clubs wish to avoid the reputational risk of corruption, then they should adopt tender-based admission systems to remove the incentive and capture full value for their members. (18-Nov-2010)
29 nabbed in Jockey Club graft swoop
HK Standard, 18-Nov-2010
HKSAR v John Terence Hung
HK Court of Appeal, 3-May-2010
"If judges, who are members of the Jockey Club, were to recuse themselves from hearing the appeal, it will be difficult to have a panel of judges to hear the appeal..."
HKSAR v Fung Hok Cheung
HK Court of Appeal, 1-Aug-2008
Hong Kong's casino
Never mind Lantau, Hong Kong does have a fully operational casino with a legally protected monopoly. We comment on the M-chip craze and the hypocrisy that permits the public to take risks in the markets and on property, but prohibits risk-taking in other forms of gambling outside of the Jockey Club monopoly. We call for liberalisation of the gambling sector. (24-Nov-2004)
HKEx to Merge with Jockey Club
In another scoop, Webb-site.com has learned of secret plans to merge the HKEx and the Jockey Club, capitalising on the obvious synergies of the casino-like stock market and the broad gambling customer base of the Jockey Club. The move has implications for the MPF as well as the battle against offshore football betting. Read our exclusive story... (1-Apr-2001)
Re The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club
HK Court of First Instance, 15-Oct-1982

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