Barrister Larry Yeung has appeared in court for allegedly having bogus credentials.

The 40-year-old appeared in Eastern Magistracy today to face charges of obtaining services by deception, using a false instrument, forgery, fraud and false accounting. No plea was taken and he was granted $20,000 bail, while Magistrate Ian Candy adjourned the case to September 30 for plea at the District Court.

The alleged offences took place between February 2000 and September 2002. One of the charges allege Yeung had dishonestly obtained from the University of Hong Kong by deception an education, including lectures and tutorials provided to him for the part-time course of Postgraduate Certificate in Laws.

False representation

He is alleged to have falsely represented he was then employed by a hotel as legal manager, and his employer had agreed to release him to attend the course. He is also alleged to have dishonestly failed to disclose that his genuine employment then was as a full-time government teacher.

The second charge alleged Yeung used a letter, purportedly issued by the hotel and which he knew to be false, with the intention of inducing university staff to accept it as genuine. The third charge alleges Yeung, together with another person, forged another letter purportedly issued by the hotel for the same reason.

Yeung allegedly induced the then Education Department to grant or continue to grant him no-pay study leave, by falsely representing he intended to apply for and use the no-pay study leave to attend a course related to education or relevant to his duties as a government teacher, and dishonestly omitted to disclose he had been admitted to the course. The remaining charge alleges Yeung falsified an application form for no-pay leave.