{{Short description|Hong Kong academic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Yiu Chung-yim |native_name = {{nobold|姚松炎}} |native_name_lang = zh-hk |honorific_suffix = [[Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors|MHKIS]], [[FRICS]] |image = File:Yiu Chung-yim, Nathan Law, Joshua Wong and Eddie Chu 20170109 (cropped).jpg |alt = |caption = Yiu in 2017 |order = |office1 = Member of the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong|Legislative Council]] |term_start1 = 1 October 2016 |term_end1 = 14 July 2017{{efn|Yiu served as member of the Legislative Council until 14 July 2017 when his oath on 12 October 2016 was invalidated and his seat was vacated according to the ruling of the [[Court of First Instance (Hong Kong)|Court of First Instance]].}} |alongside1 = <!--For two or more people serving in the same position from the same district. (e.g. United States Senators.)--> |predecessor1 = [[Tony Tse]] |successor1 = Tony Tse |constituency1 = [[Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape (constituency)|Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape]] |majority = |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|7|19|df=yes}} |birth_place = [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]] |death_date = |death_place = |citizenship = |party = |partner = <!--For those with a domestic partner and not married--> |relations = |children = |education = [[Kowloon Technical School]] |alma_mater = [[University of Hong Kong]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]], [[Master of Philosophy|MPhil]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]) |occupation = Associate professor |profession = Professional surveyor, [[Chartered Surveyor]] |cabinet = |committees = |portfolio = |signature = |signature_alt = |website = |footnotes = |blank1 = |data1 = }} {{Infobox Chinese |title=Edward Yiu Chung-yim |c=姚松炎 |j=jiu4 cung4 jim4 |p=Yáo Sōngyán }} '''Edward Yiu Chung-yim''' ({{lang-zh|c=姚松炎}}; born 19 July 1964) is a Hong Kong academic, scholar and former politician who is currently an associate professor of property at the [[University of Auckland]] Business School.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/edward-yiu|title=Associate Professor Edward Yiu - the University of Auckland|access-date=25 September 2021|archive-date=25 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925012256/https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/edward-yiu|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is a former member of the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong]] elected in the [[2016 Hong Kong legislative election|2016 Legislative Council election]] representing the [[functional constituency (Hong Kong)|functional constituency]] of [[Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape (constituency)|Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape]]. On 14 July 2017, Yiu was disqualified by the court over his manner on oath of office at the inaugural meeting of the Legislative Council on 12 October 2016 as a result of the [[Hong Kong Legislative Council oath-taking controversy|oath-taking controversy]].<ref name="ousted"/>
==Biography== Yiu graduated from the [[University of Hong Kong]] (HKU) with a degree in surveying in 1998 and later earned master's and doctoral degrees from the HKU in 2000 and 2002 respectively. He is a member of the [[Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors]], the [[Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors]] and various professional organisations.<ref name="cv">{{cite web|url=http://ecyy.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/9/3/12935669/ecyy_cv_201503.pdf|title=(Dr) YIU, Chung Yim Edward BSc., MPhil., PhD., MHKIS, MRICS, MWOBO|access-date=5 September 2016|archive-date=22 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822053924/http://ecyy.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/9/3/12935669/ecyy_cv_201503.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
He also started teaching as an instructor and lecturer at the [[City University of Hong Kong]] in 2002, became an assistant professor at the [[Hong Kong Polytechnic University]], the City University and the University of Hong Kong and an associate professor at the [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]].<ref name="cv"/>
In 2016, Yiu was elected to the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong]] in the [[2016 Hong Kong legislative election|Legislative Council election]] through the [[Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape (constituency)|Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape]] [[functional constituency (Hong Kong)|functional constituency]], defeating incumbent [[Tony Tse Wai-chuen]] with 43 percent of the 5,735 votes cast, against Tse's 35 percent. It was the only defeat for an incumbent across the 30 functional constituencies.
At the inaugural meeting of the Legislative Council on 12 October 2016, Yiu made the oath taking ceremony as a platform to protest like other pro-democracy and [[localism in Hong Kong|localist]] legislators. He added the words "safeguarding the institutional justice, fighting for universal suffrage, serving for the sustainable development of Hong Kong" in his oath twice and his oaths were invalidated by the clerk. <!-- He immediately took the oath again on the request of the clerk. --> Yiu retook the oath at the next meeting on 19 October.<ref>{{cite web|title=In the High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Court of First Instance Miscellaneous Proceedings No 3379 of 2016|url=http://legalref.judiciary.hk/lrs/common/ju/ju_frame.jsp?DIS=110350&currpage=T}}</ref>
However, the [[Hong Kong Legislative Council oath-taking controversy|oath-taking controversy]] sparked by two localist legislators [[Sixtus Leung]] and [[Yau Wai-ching]] of [[Youngspiration]] led to the unprecedented legal challenge from [[Chief Executive of Hong Kong|Chief Executive]] [[Leung Chun-ying]] and [[Secretary for Justice]] [[Rimsky Yuen]] against Yiu. On 7 November 2016, the [[National People's Congress Standing Committee]] (NPCSC) interpreted of the Article 104 of the [[Basic Law of Hong Kong]], standardising the manners of the oath-taking when taking public office. As a result, the duo were disqualified by the court. Subsequently, the government launched a second legal action against Yiu and three other pro-democracy legislators, [[Lau Siu-lai]], [[Nathan Law]] and [[Leung Kwok-hung]], which resulted in their disqualifications from the Legislative Council on 14 July 2017.<ref name="ousted">{{cite magazine|url=https://time.com/4856181/hong-kong-lawmakers-oath-china-disqualified/|title=Four More Hong Kong Lawmakers Ousted In a Blow to Democratic Hopes|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=14 July 2017}}</ref>
He ran again in the [[2018 Hong Kong by-election|March 2018 Kowloon West by-election]] for the seat left vacant by Yau Wai-ching after defeating [[Frederick Fung]] and [[Ramon Yuen]] in a three-way primary coordinated by the [[Power for Democracy]].<ref>{{cite news|title=More than 26,000 voters turn out for Hong Kong pro-democracy camp primary to choose candidates for Legco by-elections|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2128188/more-10300-hong-kong-voters-primary-pro-democracy-camp#comments|newspaper=South China Morning Post|date=14 January 2018}}</ref> Despite rumours that his candidacy could be foiled on the basis of National People's Congress Standing Committee interpretation of the Basic Law being applied to the entire term of the current legislature, Yiu survived the disqualification.<ref name="yiuclear">{{cite news|title=Hong Kong democracy activist Edward Yiu cleared to run in Legco by-election|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2131043/hong-kong-democracy-activist-edward-yiu-cleared-run-legco|newspaper=South China Morning Post|date=29 January 2018}}</ref> However, he lost to [[Vincent Cheng Wing-shun|Vincent Cheng]] from [[Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong]] (DAB) with a narrow margin of 2,419 votes, becoming the first pro-democrat to lose in a geographical constituency by-election since 1992.
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== External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20161002172703/http://www.legco.gov.hk/general/english/members/yr16-20/ycy.htm Members' Biographies], Legislative Council of Hong Kong
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