JAMES TAM  谭炳昌

Justice is paradoxically unique and universal, intuitive and complex all at once. Humanity seems further from universal justice after millennia of contemplation, deliberation, and experimentation. It was high time that some prisoner gave this dead-end issue some good thinking in his plentiful spare time. I volunteered. From social justice, my reverie ventured into slippery territories like reincarnation.

Don't want to dwell on the trial or to prove innocence (or otherwise) in this story. Anyone who's been trawled through the justice system would always be tainted in the eyes of some, and remain perpetually innocent to those who believe him to be guiltless from the onset. Furthermore, I know by now guilt is largely decided by judicial whims, luck, and, most critically, money. Facts and evidence are secondary. Nonetheless, this seems a suitable juncture to introduce some kind o

Asha, a Hong Kong born Nepalese, is charged with manslaughter after being attacked, and became a stage prop in a public show of justice

A prosecutor, a politician, and a journalist seek commonalities over happy hours. Each with his own agenda