| 1 | Mr CHOW Ka-ming, Anderson, SC was re-appointed Recorder of the Court of First Instance of the High Court |
| 7 | Mr LEE Wan-tang, Mr CHAN Ka-shun, Wilson, Dr LEONG Kwok-on, Harold and Mr YEE Kai-siu, Kent were appointed District Judges Miss WONG Sze-lai was appointed Magistrate |
| 7 | The Hon Robert Shenton FRENCH AC, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, visited the Judiciary |
| 11 | Mr LAM Wan-ho, Godfrey, SC was appointed Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court |
| 11 | A 14-member delegation of the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Republic of Korea visited the Judiciary |
| 12 | The term of office of the Rt Hon the Lord HOFFMANN, Non-Permanent Judge from another common law jurisdiction of the Court of Final Appeal, was extended for a period of three years |
| 14 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA declared opening of the 2013 Legal Year |
| 25 | A 16-member delegation from the China University of Political Science and Law visited the Judiciary |
| 1 | Mr NG Kar-fai, Peter, SC was appointed Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court |
| 18 | A six-member delegation led by the Lord WEI, Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for East Asian Business of the United Kingdom, visited the Judiciary |
| 1 | Mr POW Wing-nin, Jason, SC; Ms WONG Kwok-ying, Lisa, SC; Mr COLEMAN Russell Adam, SC; and Mr HOUGHTON Anthony Kenneth, SC were appointed Recorders of the Court of First Instance of the High Court |
| 4-5 | Deputy High Court Judge Anthea PANG, Deputy Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attended the Training for Commonwealth Judges – Crown Court Trial Seminar in Coventry, the United Kingdom |
| 7-9 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA gave a talk on the topic of “Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of China: the Continuity of the Common Law Tradition” at the 19th Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration Oration in Judicial Administration in Auckland, New Zealand; participated in the Asia Pacific Courts Conference 2013 in Auckland; spoke at two lunch-time talks entitled “The Practical Application of the Law in Hong Kong: Practices and the Courts” organised by the New Zealand Law Society and “The Future of the Common Law in Hong Kong” at the University of Auckland; and met with his counterparts including the Chief Justice of New Zealand and President of Court of Appeal of New Zealand |
| 12 | Ms Bina CHAINRAI, Mr Timothy Harry CASEWELL, Mr LAW Tak-chuen, Peter, Ms WOO Huey-fang, Bernadette, Mr LEE Hing-nin, Clement and Mr LUI Kin-man, Simon were appointed Principal Magistrates |
| 16 | An eight-member delegation led by Attorney-General of Singapore Steven CHONG, SC, visited the Judiciary |
| 27 | The Hon Mr Justice Wally YEUNG, Vice-President of the Court of Appeal of the High Court, delivered a talk at the School of Law of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou |
| 15 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA delivered a talk entitled “Common Law and its Tradition in Hong Kong” at the National University of Singapore |
| 15-17 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA; the Hon Mr Justice Andrew CHEUNG, Chief Judge of the High Court; the Hon Mr Justice BHARWANEY and the Hon Mr Justice Godfrey LAM, Judges of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attended the Fourth Judicial Seminar on Commercial Litigation 2013 in Singapore. His Honour Judge Herbert AU-YEUNG, District Judge, visited the courts of Singapore and met with the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Singapore |
| 16 | A 30-member delegation of judges attending the 7th Advanced Programme for Chinese Senior Judges at the Law School of the City University of Hong Kong visited the Judiciary |
| 18-22 | The Hon Mr Justice Jonathan R HARRIS, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attended the INSOL Tenth Multinational Judicial Colloquium on Insolvency and the Ninth Quadrennial Congress of INSOL International in the Hague, the Netherlands |
| 20 | A 10-member delegation of the Judicial Reform Steering Group of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China visited the Judiciary |
| 23 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA delivered a talk entitled “Courage and the Law: Upholding the Dignity of the Individual” at the University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 24-25 | Mr LIN Kam-hung, Ernest Michael, Principle Magistrate, attended the PRC Maritime Law Seminar in Shenzhen |
| 28 | Ms Li Mingrong, Deputy Chief Procurator of People's Procuratorate of Fujian Province of the People’s Republic of China, visited the Judiciary |
| 28 | Mr YU Mun-kee, Roy and Mr PANG Chung-ping were appointed District Judges |
| 11 | Mr PANG Ho-chuen, Lawrence was appointed Member of the Lands Tribunal |
| 13 | An eight-member delegation led by Mr WANG Xixin, Vice Dean of the Peking University Law School, visited the Judiciary |
| 17 | A 10-member delegation led by Mr Sherali RAHMANOV, Deputy Chairperson of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan, visited the Judiciary |
| 3-5 | Her Honour Judge Sharon D MELLOY, District Judge, attended the 2nd International Family Law and Practice Conference 2013 on “Parentage, Equality and Gender” in London, the United Kingdom |
| 8-9 | A group of 15 law students from Shantou University of the People’s Republic of China visited the Judiciary |
| 8-12 | Mr LUI Kin-man, Simon, Temporary Registrar of the District Court, attended the Judicial Governance Programme in Singapore |
| 16-19 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA, the Hon Mr Justice Patrick CHAN, Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal and the Hon Mr Justice Andrew CHEUNG, Chief Judge of the High Court, visited Beijing to meet with officials from the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China, the Law Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Basic Law Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the Ministry of Justice, and the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council |
| 17-19 | The Hon Mr Justice Jeremy POON, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court and Deputy High Court Judge Bebe CHU, Deputy Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attended the 15th Anniversary Meeting of the International Hague Network of Judges held in London, the United Kingdom |
| 22-24 | The Hon Mr Justice Jeremy POON, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court; Deputy High Court Judge Bebe CHU; Deputy High Court Judge David LOK; Deputy High Court Judge Marlene NG, Deputy Judges of the Court of First Instance of the High Court and His Honour Judge C K CHAN, District Judge, visited London, the United Kingdom to study the family procedure rules and modernisation of family justice |
| 26 | A six-member delegation led by the Hon Bob CARR, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, visited the Judiciary |
| 29 | The Hon James SPIGELMAN and the Hon William GUMMOW were appointed Non-Permanent Judges from other common law jurisdictions of the Court of Final Appeal |
| 1 | The Hon Mr Justice Godfrey LAM was appointed President, Competition Tribunal and the Hon Madam Justice Queeny AU-YEUNG was appointed Deputy President, Competition Tribunal |
| 8 | An 11-member delegation from the Guangdong Higher People’s Court of the People's Republic of China visited the Judiciary |
| 22-23 | The Hon Mr Justice Peter NG, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attended the International Commercial Law and Arbitration Conference in Sydney, Australia |
| 22-24 | The Hon Madam Justice Mimmie CHAN, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, spoke at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators International Arbitration Conference 2013 in Penang, Malaysia |
| 30 | Mr Justice BIRSS, Judge of the Patents County Court and Chairman of the Copyright Tribunal of the United Kingdom, visited the Judiciary |
| 1 | The terms of office of the Hon Mr Justice Frank STOCK and the Hon Mr Justice Michael J HARTMANN, Non-Permanent Hong Kong Judges of the Court of Final Appeal, were extended for a period of three years |
| 2 | A six-member delegation from the Justice Departments/Bureaux of the People's Republic of China visited the Judiciary |
| 2 | The Hon Mr Justice Johnson LAM, Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court, was appointed Vice-President of the Court of Appeal of the High Court |
| 6 | Mr VAN LOON Hans, Former Secretary General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, delivered a talk entitled “The International Hague Network of Judges and Cross-Border Judicial Communication” at the High Court |
| 9 | Ms Maura MCGOWAN QC, Chairman of the Bar of England and Wales, visited the Judiciary |
| 11 | Professor William SWADLING, Director of Graduate Studies (Taught Courses), Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, visited the Judiciary |
| 16 | Mr Kevin Paul ZERVOS, SC was appointed Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court |
| 18 | A seven-member delegation led by Vice President JIANG Bixin, Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China, visited the Judiciary |
| 23-25 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA; the Hon Mr Justice Andrew CHEUNG, Chief Judge of the High Court; The Hon Mr Justice Derek PANG, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court; His Honour Judge S T POON, Chief District Judge; and Mr LEE Hing-nin, Clement, Acting Chief Magistrate, attended the Second Seminar of Senior Judges of Cross-Strait and Hong Kong and Macao in Hsinchu (Taiwan) |
| 25-28 | The Hon Mr Justice R A V RIBEIRO, Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal, attended the Global Constitutionalism Seminar 2013 held at the Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, the United States |
| 30 | A 13-member delegation from the Court of Appeal, Region 9 of Thailand visited the Judiciary |
| 16 | The Hon Mr Justice Wally YEUNG, Vice-President of the Court of Appeal of the High Court, delivered a talk at the National Judges College in Beijing |
| 16 | A 24-member delegation of judges attending the third Doctor of Juridical Science (Chinese Judges) Programme of the City University of Hong Kong visited the Judiciary |
| 21 | Ms Yoshimi OHARA of Japan Association of Arbitrators visited the Judiciary |
| 21 | The Hon Mr Justice Joseph P FOK was appointed Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal The Hon Mr Justice Patrick CHAN was appointed Non-Permanent Hong Kong Judge of the Court of Final Appeal The Hon Mr Justice Andrew C MACRAE was appointed Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court |
| 21-24 | Ms CHEUNG Tin-ngan, June, Magistrate, attended the Asia Pacific Coroners Society Conference in Darwin, Australia |
| 22 | A seven-member delegation led by Justice LUO Dongchuan, Chief Judge and the President of the Fourth Civil Division, the Supreme People’s Court of the People's Republic of China, visited the Judiciary |
| 22-24 | A 10-member delegation led by WANG Shaonan, Director General of the Department of Judicial Administration and Equipment Management of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China, visited the Judiciary |
| 22-24 | The Hon Mr Justice Godfrey LAM and the Hon Madam Justice Queeny AU-YEUNG, Judges of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, and Mr HUI Ka-ho, Temporary Deputy Registrar of the High Court, attended the Competition Law Workshop for Asia-Pacific Judges in Gyeongju, Korea |
| 23 | A nine-member delegation led by Her Honour Justice Mata TUATAGALOA of the District Court of Samoa visited the Judiciary |
| 25 | The Hon Sir Anthony MASON, Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal, delivered a talk entitled “Sitting as Non-Permanent Judge in the Court of Final Appeal for the Past 16 Years” at the High Court |
| 25 | Mr Duncan BAGSHAW, Registrar of LCIA-MIAC Arbitration Centre of the Republic of Mauritius, visited the Judiciary |
| 27-30 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the 15th Conference of Chief Justices of Asia and the Pacific in Singapore |
| 31 | A 45-member delegation from the Hong Kong Federation of Women Lawyers visited the Judiciary |
| 11-13 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA participated in the “Justice after Jackson” Conference in London; delivered talks at events organised by the University of Oxford and The Hong Kong Association respectively |
| 15 | Her Honour Judge Anthea PANG was appointed Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court |
| 25 | Dr Richard CORNES of Essex University in the United Kingdom visited the Judiciary |
| 26 | Mr Vincent PIKET, Head of European Union Office to Hong Kong & Macao, visited the Judiciary |
| 3 | Members of the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services visited the Judiciary |
| 4 | Professor WANG Zhenmin, Dean of School of Law of Tsinghua University, visited the Judiciary |
| 4-12 | The Hon Mr Justice Godfrey LAM and the Hon Madam Justice Queeny AU-YEUNG, Judges of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, and Mr HUI Ka-ho, Temporary Deputy Registrar of the High Court, visited Brussels, Luxembourg and London to meet with relevant organisations specialised in competition law and competition-related procedural rules and litigation matters |
| 9 | The Rt Hon the Lord PHILLIPS of Worth Matravers, Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal, delivered a talk entitled "Judges must not only be independent but must be seen to be independent - the birth of the UK Supreme Court" at the High Court |
| 20 | An 11-member delegation from the Guangdong Higher People's Court of the People's Republic of China visited the Judiciary |
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