{"id":168045,"date":"2026-05-12T04:52:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=168045"},"modified":"2026-05-12T04:52:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:52:47","slug":"inquiry-can-find-truth-despite-absent-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=168045","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Inquiry can find truth despite absent witnesses&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1854169_1_M_20260510122854.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>The chairman of the Bar Association, Jos&eacute;-Antonio Maurellet, on Sunday said he believes the independent committee of inquiry looking into the Wang Fuk Court fire could uncover the truth behind the disaster. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview with TVB News, Maurellet said that 26 barristers are now involved in the inquiry representing different stakeholders &ndash; a record high for such a proceeding&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1854169-20260510.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of the Bar Association, Jos&eacute;-Antoni [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}