Andrew Li Kwok-nang is a retired Hong Kong judge,and a former Chief Justice of Hong Kong,who was the first to preside over the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal,established on 1 July 1997. Li was succeeded by Geoffrey Ma on 1 September 2010.
The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (HKCFA) is the final appellate court of Hong Kong. It was established on 1 July 1997,upon the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,replacing the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as the highest judicial institution under Hong Kong law. As defined in Articles 19 and 85 of the Hong Kong Basic Law,the Court of Final Appeal "exercises judicial power in the Region independently and free from any interference." The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal Ordinance and the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal Rules set out the detailed functions and procedures of the court.
The High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is a part of the legal system of Hong Kong. It consists of the Court of Appeal and the Court of First Instance;it deals with criminal and civil cases which have risen beyond the lower courts. It is a superior court of record of unlimited civil and criminal jurisdiction. It was named the Supreme Court before 1997. Though previously named the Supreme Court,this Court has long been the local equivalent to the Senior Courts of England and Wales and has never been vested with the power of final adjudication.
David Edmond Neuberger,Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury is an English judge. He served as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2012 to 2017. He was a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary until the House of Lords' judicial functions were transferred to the new Supreme Court in 2009,at which point he became Master of the Rolls,the second most senior judge in England and Wales. Neuberger was appointed to the Supreme Court,as its President,in 2012. He now serves as a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal and formerly served as the Chair of the High-Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom. He was appointed to the Singapore International Commercial Court as from 2018.
The chief justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal,sometimes informally known as the chief justice of Hong Kong,is the head of the Judiciary of Hong Kong and the chief judge of the Court of Final Appeal. The chief justice is one of three permanent members of the Court. During British rule between 1843 and 1997,the head of the Hong Kong Judiciary was the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong;that position became the chief judge of the High Court in 1997.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law is a law school in Hong Kong.
Patrick Chan Siu-oi is a judge in Hong Kong. He currently serves as a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal having previously been a Permanent Judge of that court.
John Barry Mortimer,GBS,SPMB,OBE,QC is a British barrister who has held senior judicial appointments in Hong Kong and Brunei Darussalam.
John Anthony Dyson,Lord Dyson,is a former British judge and barrister. He was Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice,the second most senior judge in England and Wales,from 2012 to 2016,and a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2012. He was the first justice to be appointed who was not a peer.
Maria Candace Yuen Ka-ning JA,GBS was a Hong Kong judge. She has served as a Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal since May 2002.
Sir Alan Armstrong Huggins was a British colonial judge serving in places including Uganda,Hong Kong and Brunei. He spent nearly 40 years in the judiciary of Hong Kong,serving as a Vice-President of the Court of Appeal from 1980 to 1987. After the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997,he was appointed a non-permanent Hong Kong judge of the Court of Final Appeal until 2003.
Robert Tang Kwok-ching,GBM,SBS,JP is a retired Hong Kong judge. He previously served as a permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal,and before that,the vice-president of the Court of Appeal in Hong Kong. Following his retirement,he was appointed a non-permanent judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.
Andrew Cheung Kui-nung is a Hong Kong judge who serves as the 3rd Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal. He previously served as a Permanent Judge of the same court. He was the 4th and longest-serving Chief Judge of the High Court.
Arthur Leong GBS (1936–2010) was a judge in Hong Kong. He was Chief Judge of the High Court of Hong Kong from 2000 to 2003.
Joseph Paul Fok is a Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.
Michael Victor Lunn,GBS,KC,SC is a senior judge. He is Chairman of the Market Misconduct Tribunal and the Securities and Futures Appeals Tribunal in Hong Kong.
The Chief Judge of the High Court of Hong Kong (CJHC) is the head of the High Court of Hong Kong and the President of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong. In the Hong Kong order of precedence,the Chief Judge is the second most senior administrative judge for the courts system,second only to the Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong. The position of Chief Judge is the broad equivalent of the Master of the Rolls in the courts system of England and Wales.
Thomas Au Hing-cheung is a Hong Kong judge,currently serving as a justice of appeal of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong.
Temple Chambers is a set of barristers' chambers based in Admiralty,Hong Kong. It is widely considered to be one of the leading sets of chambers in Hong Kong given its high ratio of senior counsel to juniors,as well as a strong history of appointments to key judicial and government roles.
Paul Lam Ting-kwok is a Hong Kong Senior Counsel,currently serving as the 5th Secretary for Justice since July 2022.
