Robert Tibbo
Robert Tibbo adalah pengacara Kanada yang berkantor di Hong Kong.[2] Ia dikenal atas kasus-kasusnya di bidang hak asasi manusia, peninjauan kembali, dan hukum konstitusional.[3][4] Aktivitas Tibbo juga mencakup pengadilan kejahatan dan banding serta hukum dagang dan hukum kontrak.[5][6][7] Tibbo juga merupakan pakar hukum ekstradisi.[8] Ia pernah menjadi pengacara untuk beberapa tokoh ternama, termasuk Edward Snowden,[9][10] Zeljko Ivic,[11] dan Xiao Hui.[12] Selain itu, Robert Tibbo menjabat sebagai direktur Vision First, LSM yang memberi bantuan bagi pencari suaka di Hong Kong.[13][14] Sebagai penasihat hukum Hong Kong Helpers Campaign, Tibbo memberikan komentarnya pada kasus Erwiana Sulistyaningsih perihal perlakuan yang diterimanya dan hak konstitusionalnya di Hong Kong.[15][16][17]
| Robert Tibbo | |
|---|---|
| Kebangsaan | Kanada |
| Almamater | Universitas McGill, Universitas Auckland Universitas Melbourne Universitas Hong Kong[1] |
| Pekerjaan | Pengacara |
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- ^ "Tibbo, Robert". Bar List at Hong Kong Bar Association. Hong Kong Bar Association. 2014. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2015-01-22. Diakses tanggal 4 January 2015.
- ^ Séguin, Marc-André (December 2013). "Snowden's Canadian lawyer". CBA National Magazine. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2013-12-26. Diakses tanggal 12 December 2014.
Robert Tibbo barrister-at-law, Hong Kong
- ^ Harding, Luke (7 February 2014). The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. hlm. 1. ISBN 9780804173537. Diakses tanggal 12 December 2014.
Tibbo, a human rights lawyer, awas used to dealing with clients in bad situations. A Canadian by nationality, with a pleasant manner, a smart blazer and a receding hairline, Tibbo represented the vulnerable and the downtrodden - Sri Lankans facing deportation, Pakistanis wrongly denied asylum, abused refugees.
- ^ Chiu, Joanna (20 January 2014). "Indonesian maid at centre of 'torture ordeal' row could sue Hong Kong government". South China Morning Post. Diakses tanggal 13 December 2014.
Rights lawyer Robert Tibbo, who advised surveillance whistle-blower Edward Snowden, said Erwiana's lawyers could sue the government for failing to fulfill its constitutional obligation to provide state protection to victims of torture or cruel treatment. He said remedies for a violation of those rights can be sought under Section 6 of the Bill of Rights, but no specific penalty for such a breach is stipulated.
- ^ "HCMP1863/2007". Hong Kong Law Reports & Digest. Thomson Reuters. 2: 1142. 4 May 2010.
- ^ "FACC10/2005". Hong Kong Law Reports & Digest. Thomson Reuters. 2: 738. 2006.
- ^ "HCB9808/2007". Hong Kong Law Reports & Digest. Thomson Reuters. 4: 135. 2008.
- ^ Andrews, Suzanna; Bryan Burrough; Sarah Ellison (May 2014). "Snowden Speaks". Vanity Fair. Diakses tanggal 13 December 2014.
Snowden, meanwhile, remained in hiding in Hong Kong. Some believe he was at an out-of-the-way house arranged by the three attorneys he had retained who now oversaw his fate: Albert Ho, a prominent local legislator and fixer; his young associate, Jonathan Man; and a canny Canadian-born specialist in extradition matters, Robert Tibbo.
- ^ Bradsher, Keith (24 June 2013). "Hasty Exit Started With Pizza Inside a Hong Kong Hideout". The New York Times. Diakses tanggal 12 December 2014.
Mr. Snowden accepted an invitation to stay in the home of one of that person’s friends when he checked out of the Mira Hotel on June 10, and the individual put him in touch with two local lawyers. They were Robert Tibbo, a barrister who specializes in human rights and refugee law, and Jonathan Man, an associate at Ho Tse Wai, Philip Li & Partners, one of Hong Kong’s best-known law firms.
- ^ Branigan, Tania; Miriam Elder (1 July 2013). "Edward Snowden's Moscow stopover became end of the line … for now". The Guardian. Diakses tanggal 12 December 2014.
Snowden engaged two lawyers known for their work on sensitive human rights and asylum claims: solicitor Jonathan Man and barrister Robert Tibbo. Both offered their services on a pro bono basis.
- ^ Wong, Douglas (15 May 2014). "BTG Billionaire Esteves Sued in Hong Kong by Ex-Employee - Bloomberg". Bloomberg L.P. Diakses tanggal 12 December 2014.
Andre Esteves, the billionaire founder of Brazil’s BTG Pactual, was sued by a former employee in Hong Kong who claims he was promised a partnership and stock for securing investors before the bank’s initial share sale. Zeljko Ivic alleged that Banco BTG Pactual SA, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Esteves and Huw Jenkins, a managing partner, made fraudulent misrepresentations to get him to sign agreements with the investment bank, according to a lawsuit filed with the Hong Kong High Court. BTG Pactual raised as much as 3.66 billion reais ($1.66 billion) in its 2012 initial public offering. The sale followed a 2010 agreement to sell a stake to a group including China Investment Corp., GIC Pte. and the Rothschild and Agnelli families. Esteves, 45, is worth $4.2 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, mostly due to his 22 percent stake in BTG Pactual. Jenkins and Hong Kong-based BTG Pactual Asia Ltd., which has also been sued, will vigorously defend the claims, “which they believe to be baseless and without merit,” according to their lawyer Randall Arthur. BTG Pactual doesn’t comment on matters under litigation, the Sao Paulo-based bank said in an e-mail response to queries. Shares of the company fell 0.7 percent to 32.22 reais at 10:41 a.m. in Sao Paulo. Ivic is seeking more than $20 million as damages for the value of the shares and partnership promised, as well as unpaid bonuses, his lawyer Robert Tibbo said.
- ^ Yun, Michelle (13 March 2014). "Former Hanlong executive wanted for insider trading seeks asylum in Hong Kong". The Sydney Morning Herald. Diakses tanggal 12 December 2014.
A former executive of China's Hanlong Mining Investment wanted in Australia for alleged insider trading is seeking asylum in Hong Kong, a court heard on Thursday, a process that could delay his extradition by several years. Hui Xiao, also known as Steven Xiao, is wanted in relation to 104 offences linked to Hanlong's 2011 takeover bids for Australia's Sundance Resources and Bannerman Resources. During an insider trading investigation in Australia, Xiao was permitted to leave the country for a short visit back to China in November 2011 but did not return. He was arrested in Hong Kong in January. In February, Xiao applied to authorities to be granted asylum in Hong Kong, according to his lawyer Robert Tibbo, who said it could take five years or more for his case to be resolved.
- ^ Pomfret, James; Greg Torode (24 June 2013). "Behind Snowden's Hong Kong exit: fear and persuasion". Reuters. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2015-06-13. Diakses tanggal 12 December 2014.
Tibbo and Man previously had handled several controversial cases, including a bid to sue the Hong Kong government in 2004 for extraditing Libyan dissident Sami al-Saadi back to Tripoli, where Saadi says he was tortured. "If I were looking for a Hong Kong lawyer who was ready to take on the government for a tough fight, (Tibbo) would definitely be one of the top three to four people I would pick," said Cosmo Beatson, the executive director of Vision First, a group helping asylum seekers in the city of more than 7 million people. Tibbo is a director of the group.
- ^ Branigan, Tania (6 March 2014). "Hong Kong's dirty secret: thousands of asylum seekers left waiting in squalor". The Guardian. Diakses tanggal 12 December 2014.
"Up until the Snowden case, it was apparent that the whole world turned a blind eye to the plight of asylum seekers in Hong Kong," said Robert Tibbo, the American's lawyer here and a director of Vision First, a NGO supporting refugees.
- ^ Liljas, Per (20 January 2014). "Hong Kong Government Could Be Sued Over Maid Abuses, Says Top Rights Lawyer". Time. Diakses tanggal 12 December 2014.
The case of Erwiana Sulistyaningsih — an Indonesian maid allegedly abused by her Hong Kong employer — came to light more than a week ago and has shocked many with its brutality. The employer was arrested Monday attempting to flee the city. ... Erwiana has declared that she will take legal action against her former employer. Rights lawyer Robert Tibbo, who advised National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden when he briefly holed up in town after fleeing the U.S., believes Erwiana also has grounds for suing the government for failing to provide her with proper protection. “There is enough evidence out there to show that helpers are in a vulnerable position and that there is ongoing abuse,” Tibbo tells TIME. “The most telling and shocking issue is that Erwiana went through the immigrations channel at the airport without being properly asked what had happened to her. It was quite clear that she had been tortured, in which case government staff have a duty to assist her.”
- ^ Chiu, Joanna (20 January 2014). "Indonesian maid at centre of 'torture ordeal' row could sue Hong Kong government". South China Morning Post. Diakses tanggal 13 December 2014.
Tibbo said he was shocked to learn that airport immigration officers did not inquire about Erwiana's condition when she left Hong Kong. He said: "The woman showed clear signs of being tortured and nothing less than that. She was emaciated and had a large number of scars on her face, hands and feet." Simon Young Ngai-man, deputy director of Hong Kong University’s law department, said Tibbo’s idea was “definitely worth exploring”.
- ^ Chiu, Joanna; Danny Mok (7 April 2014). "Erwiana's arrival in Hong Kong marred by dispute over accommodation". South China Morning Post. Diakses tanggal 13 December 2014.
Mr Tibbo is legal advisor to the HK Helpers Campaign and also advised Edward Snowden during his visit to Hong Kong last year. “The respective Hong Kong and Indonesian government interests are clearly adverse to Erwiana’s rights and interests. This is a case where Erwiana would be best protected by having Hong Kong lawyers stand between her and the respective Indonesian and Hong Kong governments so that the abuses of today are brought to an immediate stop. This would effectively remove the conflict of interests that exists between Erwiana and Hong Kong and Indonesian authorities”. With regards to reports that Erwiana was threatened with deportation and separated from her lawyer, father and friends, Mr Tibbo stated that the actions “amounted to nothing less than state oppression to compel Erwiana to comply with their demands”.