Barnabas Fung
Barnabas Fung Wah, GBS (Chinese: 馮驊; born 1960) is a Hong Kong judge. He has served as a High Court Judge since 2006.
The Honourable Mr Justice Barnabas Fung Wah | |
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馮驊 | |
Fung in 2019 | |
| Chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission | |
| In office 17 August 2009 – 16 August 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Pang Kin-kee |
| Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court | |
| Assumed office 2006 | |
| Chief District Judge | |
| In office 2001–2006 | |
| Preceded by | Richard Hawkes |
| Succeeded by | Patrick Li |
| District Judge | |
| In office 1998–2001 | |
| Permanent Magistrate | |
| In office 1993–1998 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1960 (age 62–63) Hong Kong |
| Alma mater | University of New South Wales University of Hong Kong |
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| Traditional Chinese | 馮驊 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 冯骅 | ||||||||||
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Since 2016, Fung has served as a Panel Judge handling interception and surveillance authorisation requests from law enforcement agencies.[1][2]
He was Chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission from 2009 to 2022.
He previously served as Chairman and Director of the Hong Kong Children's Choir.[3]
Education and legal career
Fung was educated at Wah Yan College, Hong Kong and Barker College, Australia.[4] He graduated from the University of New South Wales with a BComm and LLB in 1984 and 1985 respectively. He obtained his PCLL from the University of Hong Kong in 1986.[5]
Fung was called to the New South Wales Bar and Hong Kong Bar in 1985 and 1986 respectively. He was a barrister in private practice in Hong Kong from 1987 to 1993.[5]
Judicial career
In 1993, Fung joined the bench as a Permanent Magistrate. He became a District Judge in 1998 and was subsequently appointed as Chief District Judge in 2001.[5][6]
Fung sat as a Deputy High Court Judge intermittently from December 2001 to July 2006.[7][8][9][10][11][12]
In November 2006, Fung was appointed as a Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court.[5] He was the Judge in charge of the Personal Injury List from 2008 to 2010.
Fung acted as Returning Officer for the 2007 Hong Kong Chief Executive election.[13]
In 2009, Fung was appointed as Chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission.[14] He was re-appointed in 2013 and 2017 (for a term of 5 years until 2022).[15][16] On 16 August 2022, it was announced that Fung's chairmanship of the EAC expired that day and the Government was actively identifying his successor, whose appointment would be announced in due course.[17]
Fung has sat in the Court of Appeal in a number of civil and criminal appeal cases.[18]
Awards
- 2017 Gold Bauhinia Star (in recognition of his distinguished service as the Chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission)[19][20]
References
- ^ "Government announces appointment of Panel Judge under Interception of Communications and Surveillance Ordinance". Government of Hong Kong. 28 October 2016.
- ^ "Re-appointment of Panel Judge under Interception of Communications and Surveillance Ordinance". Government of Hong Kong. 1 November 2019.
- ^ "The Hon Justice Barnabas Fung". University of New South Wales.
- ^ "Hong Kong Judiciary Annual Report 2001" (PDF). Judiciary of Hong Kong. p. 104.
- ^ a b c d "Judicial appointments". Government of Hong Kong. 24 November 2006.
- ^ "Judicial Appointment". Government of Hong Kong. 27 April 2001.
- ^ "G.N. 7321", Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 48, Vol. 5, 30 November 2001)
- ^ "G.N. 2380", Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 17, Vol. 6, 26 April 2002)
- ^ "G.N. 8261", Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 53, Vol. 8, 31 December 2004)
- ^ "G.N. 1440", Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 13, Vol. 9, 1 April 2005)
- ^ "G.N. 6214", Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 48, Vol. 9, 2 December 2005)
- ^ "G.N. 3655", Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 23, Vol. 10, 9 June 2006)
- ^ "G.N. 967", Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 6, Vol. 11, 9 February 2007)
- ^ "Appointments to the Electoral Affairs Commission". Government of Hong Kong. 27 July 2009.
- ^ "Re-appointment of Chairman of Electoral Affairs Commission". Government of Hong Kong. 21 June 2013.
- ^ "Re-appointment of Chairman of Electoral Affairs Commission". Government of Hong Kong. 14 June 2017.
- ^ "Expiry of chairmanship for Electoral Affairs Commission". Government of Hong Kong. 16 August 2022.
- ^ For example, 王子鑫 v 香港警務處長鄧竟成, CACV 354/2007, reported in [2008] 5 HKLRD 164, 香港特別行政區 訴 吳岳威, CACC 141/2007, reported in [2008] 1 HKLRD 546, and HKSAR v Wong Po Lam, CACC 163/2007
- ^ "G.N.(E.) 43" Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 36, Vol. 21 (Extraordinary), 30 June 2017)
- ^ "Appendix: The citations of the award recipients of the 2017 Honours List" (PDF). Government of Hong Kong. 30 June 2017.