Tai Po fire: estate manager deemed ‘pitiful’, denies acting as consultant

An independent, judge-led committee investigating Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades will hear closing submissions from legal representatives, following 27 sessions of evidential hearings. Counsel representing the committee, the government and other parties are expected to deliver their final submissions before the panel from Wednesday to Friday, after which it will proceed to finalise a report due in about a month. A deadly blaze broke out at the Wang Fuk Court residential complex in Tai…