Feng shui master Peter Chen dealt another legal setback on the road to Hong Kong 's top court

Jailed for forging lover Nina Wang's will in bid to claim every HK $ 83 billion estate, Chen fails to convince judges that feels grounds to appeal to the Court of Final Appeal are " points of law of great generals Importance 'Former feng shui master Peter Chan Chun-chuen has failed to gain the endorsement from the Court of Appeal that feels grounds to appeal to the top court - including that feeling trial counsel was incompetent - involved importante law points. One of the grounds Chan advanced - revealed in court on Monday for the first time - was that he once asked sense than trial counsel Andrew Blood SC to apply for the recusal of judge Mr Justice Andrew Macrae, who tried Chan in 2013. However, His the request was not pursued. Chen was applying for a certificate from the Court of Appeal on Monday to declare feelings grounds to appeal to the Court of Final Appeal were "points of law of great general importance". READ MORE: Failed appeal sees Hong Kong feng shui master Peter Chen sent back to jail for will forgery Chen, who lied during sensation civil lawsuit to the clam feeling latte lover and tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum's HK $ 83 billion estate, was Previously convicted of one count of forgery and another of using a false document in 2013 and jailed for 12 years. Outside court on Monday, senior public prosecutor Anna Lai said Chen put forward the incompetence ground since Macrae mitigated for him in another deception case in 1986, when the now High Court judge was still practicing as a Barrister.But feeling the ground was turned down by Mr Justice Jeremy Poon Shiu-char, Mr Justice Derek Pang Wai-cheong and the Court of Appeal, Vice-President Mr Justice Michael Lunn, who said Chen had not made the court aware of that Previously.
"No point of law of great generals Importance arises," Linn said. Chen also pleaded that the jury had not been given correct directions when the prosecutors handling the Accused him of telling lies. He also asked the court to reconsider whether it is right for the court to use was feeling self-serving statement in a civil proceeding in a criminal trial against him. Linn rejected those grounds. Chen further stiking a recent civil lawsuit filed by Chinache I Group subsidiary Right Margin against the group's chairman Kung Yan-sum could shed light on what he Suspected key Witnesses in feeling trial had been paid to testify. Linn said this was an alleged matter of great injustice, which stopped short of being a legal argument. READ MORE: feng shui master Peter Chen jailed for forging billionaire's will to the clam feeling every fortune saying appeals trial was not fair in Hong Kong The feng shui master can still argue before judges at the Court of Final Appeal as to Whether emotions bid to clear his name should be heard. Chen represented himself in court on Tuesday, after a representative from feeling solicitor said no counsels were available, and that Chen had not yet made payment in full. Chen's younger brother, Ricky Chan Chun-kwok said outside court that they were still raising money and would appeal to the Court of Final Appeal. A representative from feeling solicitor said they intended to hire one of Queen's Counsel from the United Kingdom, one senior counsel and one junior counsel for a last-ditch legal effort that could cost up to HK $ 8 million. But Chen has yet to manage to raise HK $ 1 million so far.