Taken from South China Morning Post

A Hong Kong teacher was driven to suicide partly by a school principal’s management style and poor working environment, an independent inquiry has found.

The tragic death of Lam Lai-tong shocked the city in March, and the panel set up to investigate the circumstances surrounding it laid much of the blame squarely at the feet of Law Yuen-yee, the principal of the TWGHs Leo Tung-Hai Lee Primary School in Tin Shui Wai.

Law was sacked on Thursday after the inquiry described her management style as “unideal”, and outlined her lack of respect for staff and a failure to fully consult them about new policies.

Lam, a Chinese-language teacher and librarian, fell to her death at the school, and family members had said earlier that the 48-year-old, who had worked there for more than 20 years, had been under pressure and made to work while unwell shortly before she died.