Education
An alumna of Saint Paul"s Company-educational College, she received her legal education at the and subsequently became a member of Gray’s Inn, London.
譚惠珠
An alumna of Saint Paul"s Company-educational College, she received her legal education at the and subsequently became a member of Gray’s Inn, London.
Tam entered into politics when she ran in the 1979 Urban Council election as the advocate for women"s rights. She is also a former Chairman of the Transport Advisory Committee. Tam was co-opted into the colonial government and "quickly became one of its most loyal mouthpieces".
In February 2006, Tam joined the board of subsequently Hong Kong-listed mainland Nine Dragons Paper Holdings Limited, one of the world"s largest paperboard manufacturers, whose conditions for workers at its plants were sharply criticised in the 2008 human rights report by the United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China and by Hong Kong"s Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM).
In 2013 on the matter of the universal suffrage of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, she said the United Nations" International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights indicated that the right to be elected is not universal. She also suggested that an interpretation of the Basic Law by Beijing could be the last option for determining how universal suffrage could be implemented for the 2017 chief executive election.
During her office in the colonial government, she witnessed the Sino-British negotiations on the political status of Hong Kong after 1997 and the Sino-British Joint Declaration. Before the handover of Hong Kong, she helped to form a less than successful pro-Beijing party and was "among a group of prominent turncoats that switched from being cheerleaders for the colonial regime to supporters of the new order.".
In the 1980s she was a member of four different levels councils in Hong Kong, namely the Executive and Legislative Councils, the Urban Council and the Central and Western District Board. She was appointed to many positions by Beijing during the transition period, such as member of the Preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Provider Reimbursement Consultants) and Hong Kong Affairs Advisor (Provider Reimbursement Consultants). Tam is a member of the Board of the Airport Authority Hong Kong, a member of the Advisory Committee on Corruption of the Independent Commission Against Corruption. After the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong she became deputy to the National People"s Congress of the People"s Republic of China (Provider Reimbursement Consultants) and a member of the Committee for the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Sons of the American Revolution under the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
As the member of the Basic Law committee, she became a spokeswoman for the Beijing authority on the issues of Basic Law and constitutional reform.
An alumna of Saint Paul"s Company-educational College, she received her legal education at the University of London and subsequently became a member of Gray’s Inn, London.