Independent authorities will scrutinize labor department handling of resident complaints and inspections at a renovation site following a major fire last November. The inquiry focuses on whether smoking was found as potential evidence in the disaster.

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong labour authorities’ handling of Wang Fuk Court residents’ complaints and inspections at the renovation site before the estate was engulfed in an inferno last November will be scrutinised by the independent committee on the 16th day of its evidential hearing. Officers from the Labour Department are scheduled to testify on Tuesday before the judge-led...