Lawyer said he did not bring chop to signing of Nina Wang will
Solicitor testifies he did not request secretary to send official stamp when he attested Nina Wang's partial will, but company name is on it
A lawyer did not ask his secretary to bring a chop to the office of Asia's richest woman Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum when she signed a partial will in 2006, a court heard yesterday.
The allegedly fake will at the centre of self-styled fung shui master Peter Chan Chun-chuen's forgery trial, however, does bear a chop for the company, reading: "Solicitor, Hong Kong SAR Ford, Kwan & Co." The will is dated October 16, 2006.
The Court of First Instance heard earlier that the partial will Wang executed in October 2006 formed the base of the counterfeit involved in Chan's trial. The partial will has not been found since its creation.
Yesterday, solicitor Winfield Wong Wing-cheung testified he did not ask his secretary to bring him a chop at Wang's Chinachem office in Tsim Sha Tsui when he attested the partial will.
Chan, who has changed his name from Tony, is accused of forging a will in the name of the late Chinachem chief. The 53-year-old denies the charges.
Wong denied defence counsel Andrew Kan's suggestions that he once walked out of the conference room when Wang and Chinachem senior employee Ng Shung-mo were in the room.
