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Highlights of Events in 2016
| 11 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA declared opening of the 2016 Legal Year |
| 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 |
| 15 | Mr Jonathan SMITHERS, President of the Law Society, United Kingdom and Mr Dominic HURLEY, Head of City and Engagement, Law Society, United Kingdom visited the Judiciary |
| 18 | Members from the Legislative Council Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services visited the Judiciary |
| 19 | A seven-member delegation led by ZHAO Jinshan, Deputy Director General of the Department of Enforcement of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China, visited the Judiciary |
| 21-22 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA and the Hon Mr Justice Andrew CHEUNG, Chief Judge of the High Court, attended the International Conference: Doing Business Across Asia: Legal Convergence in an Asian Century held in Singapore |
| 21-23 | The Hon Madam Justice Bebe CHU, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attended a Working Group meeting under the Hague Conference on Private International Law held in The Hague, the Netherlands |
| 25 | Mr WAN Chun, Director of the Law and Policy Research Office, Supreme People's Procuratorate of the People’s Republic of China, visited the Judiciary |
| 28 | Ambassador HUANG Hui-kang, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to Malaysia, visited the Judiciary |
| 3 | Ms Elisabeth WINKELMEIER-BECKER, member of the German Bundestag (Parliament) of Germany, visited the Judiciary |
| 5 | A 10-member delegation from the Central Intellectual Property and International Trade Court of Thailand visited the Judiciary |
| 20 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups Standard Chartered Hong Kong English Public Speaking Contest 2016 |
| 24 | Mr XU Hong, Director-General of the Department of Treaty and Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, visited the Judiciary |
| 1 | Mr POW Wing-nin, Jason, SC; Ms WONG Kwok-ying, Lisa, SC; Mr Russell Adam COLEMAN, SC; and Mr Anthony Kenneth HOUGHTON, SC were re-appointed Recorders of the Court of First Instance of the High Court |
| 3-4 | The Hon Madam Justice Carlye CHU, Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court, attended the International Business of Judging Course in Northampton, England |
| 3-5 | The Hon Mr Justice Kevin Paul ZERVOS, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, delivered a keynote address and spoke in the panel sessions at the GENNEXT Counsel Congress 2016 in Mumbai, India |
| 14-17 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA delivered the 2016 Bentham Association Presidential Address entitled "In Praise of an Old, Honourable and Distinguished Friend: the Bar" at the University College London and met with senior members of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Commercial Law Centre and a few very senior judges in London, the United Kingdom |
| 14 | A 10-member delegation led by Mr FENG Tie, Director-General of the Department of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, visited the Judiciary |
| 23 | A five-member delegation led by Mr SHEN De-yong, Executive Vice-President of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China, visited the Judiciary |
| 8 | The Rt Hon Philip HAMMOND MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, visited the Judiciary |
| 18 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA spoke at a dinner organised by the Hong Kong Venture Capital and Private Equity Association |
| 18-19 | A three-member delegation led by Mr Vincent HOONG, Registrar of the Supreme Court of Singapore, visited the Judiciary |
| 26-27 | The Hon Mr Justice Wally YEUNG, Vice-President of the Court of Appeal of the High Court, gave lectures at the Law School, Beijing Normal University in Beijing |
| 28 | Judge Allyson Kay DUNCAN, Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, visited the Judiciary |
| 28 | The Rt Hon the Lord CLARKE of Stone-cum-Ebony, Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal, delivered a talk entitled “Advocacy, Ethics and the Role of the Expert - Some English Reflections” at the High Court |
| 10 | A delegation led by Mr XIONG Yi, Vice President of Jiangsu Higher People's Court, visited the Judiciary |
| 18-20 | Ms WONG Sze-lai, Magistrate, attended the International Conference for Chief Coroners 2016 in London, United Kingdom |
| 21 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the Bar Association Debating Competition 2016 |
| 25 | Mrs Audrey Patricia CAMPBELL-MOFFAT, SC, was appointed Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court |
| 30 | The Hon Mr Justice Johnson LAM, Vice-President of the Court of Appeal of the High Court, spoke in a mediation conference held by the Dongguan Second People’s Court in Dongguan |
| 3 | The Hon Madam Justice Maggie POON, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, officiated at a seminar entitled “Seminar about the Revision of Penal Code – Crimes against Sexual Freedom and Self-Determination” in Macao |
| 5-7 | The Hon Mr Justice Jonathan R HARRIS, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attended the International Insolvency Institute’s 16th Annual Conference in Tokyo, Japan |
| 10 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA delivered the opening remarks at the 6th LAWASIA Family Law & Children’s Rights Conference |
| 11 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA presided over the 2016 Senior Counsel Admission Ceremony |
| 15-17 | His Honour Judge Douglas YAU, District Judge, conducted a study visit to the Judicial Commission of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia |
| 16 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the Law Council of Australia International Law Section Hong Kong Chapter’s Cocktail and Talk |
| 17 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA delivered the Reviewing Officer's speech at the Correctional Services Department's Passing-Out Parade |
| 21 | A 23-member delegation led by Professor Andreas KELLERHALS, Director of the Europa Institute and the LLM Program of the University of Zurich, visited the Judiciary |
| 23 | Mr ZHAO Da-cheng, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China, visited the Judiciary |
| 27-1/7 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA led a delegation to Beijing, Shenyang and Dalian for a visit at the invitation of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China |
| 29-30 | The Hon Madam Justice Bebe CHU, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, participated as a workshop moderator in the Asia Pacific Symposium on the 1980 Hague Convention in Tokyo, Japan |
| 6-8 | The Hon Mr Justice David LOK, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attended the International Conference on “Culture, Dispute Resolution and The Modernised Family” in London, United Kingdom |
| 7 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA delivered a speech "The Law: cries or whispers?" at the 9th Humanities Research Symposium for Youth organised by the Diocesan Girls’ School |
| 11-12 | The Hon Madam Justice Bebe CHU, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attended a subsidiary meeting of the Working Group on Article 13(1)(b) of the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention held in London, the United Kingdom |
| 14-15 | The Hon Mr Justice Kevin Paul ZERVOS, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attended the 3rd Criminal Law Conference in Singapore and delivered a keynote address |
| 25 | A 18-member delegation of the Legal and Judicial Training Centre of the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China visited the Judiciary |
| 28 | An eight-member delegation led by Mr XU Jiaxin, Director of Political Department of the Supreme People's Court of the People’s Republic of China, visited the Judiciary |
| 29 | The term of office of the Hon Mr Justice James SPIGELMAN and the Hon Mr Justice William GUMMOW, Non-Permanent Judges from other common law jurisdictions of the Court of Final Appeal, was extended for a period of three years |
| 1 | The Hon Mr Justice Godfrey LAM was re-appointed President, Competition Tribunal and the Hon Madam Justice Queeny AU-YEUNG was re-appointed Deputy President, Competition Tribunal |
| 11 | A seven-member delegation from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China visited the Judiciary |
| 17 | Ms Jan Adams AO PSM, Australian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, visited the Judiciary |
| 22 | Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister for Intellectual Property and HH Judge Richard Hacon, Presiding Judge of the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, visited the Judiciary |
| 1 | The term of office of the Hon Mr Justice Frank STOCK, Non-Permanent Hong Kong Judge of the Court of Final Appeal, was extended for a period of three years |
| 7 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the University of Birmingham reception in Hong Kong |
| 21-23 | The Hon Mrs Justice CAMPBELL-MOFFAT, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, spoke on the topic of “Advocacy and the Handling of Expert Witnesses” at the International Malaysia Law Conference 2016 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| 21-24 | The Hon Mr Justice R A V RIBEIRO, Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal, attended the Global Constitutionalism Seminar 2016 held at the Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, the United States |
| 26-27 | The Hon Madam Justice Bebe CHU, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court and Her Honour Judge Sharon D MELLOY, District Judge, participated in the Symposium on Cross-Border Disputes involving Children in Singapore |
| 29-30 | The Hon Madam Justice Bebe CHU, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court and Her Honour Judge Sharon D MELLOY, District Judge, attended the Singapore International Family Law Conference 2016 in Singapore |
| 29-30 | The Hon Mr Justice Peter NG, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attended as a panel speaker at the 8th Asian Maritime Law Conference entitled “Asian Shipping in Focus: Opportunities and Challenges” in Singapore |
| 30 | The Rt Hon Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC, visited the Judiciary |
| 5-7 | The Hon Mr Justice David LOK, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attended the 6th Annual Competition Law Workshop for Asia-Pacific Judges in Seoul, South Korea |
| 10-11 | The Hon Mr Justice Jonathan Russell HARRIS, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attended as an observer at the Judicial Insolvency Network Conference held in Singapore |
| 11 | An 11-member delegation from the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam visited the Judiciary |
| 12-16 | The Hon Mr Justice Andrew Colin MACRAE, Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court, attended the 15th International Criminal Law Congress “30 Years On” held in Adelaide, Australia |
| 17 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the Symposium on Developing Commercial Law through the Courts: Rebalancing the Relationship between the Courts and Arbitration organised by Hong Kong Academy of Law |
| 17 | Thirty-three Mainland judges participating in the 10th Advanced Programme for Chinese Senior Judges of the City University of Hong Kong visited the Judiciary |
| 18 | Twelve Mainland judges participating in the 4th Doctor of Juridical Science Programme for Chinese Senior Judges of the City University of Hong Kong visited the Judiciary |
| 20 | A six-member delegation led by Madam HU Ze-jun, Executive Deputy Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate of the People’s Republic of China, visited the Judiciary |
| 20-21 | Mr Registrar LUNG Kim-wan, Registrar of the High Court, participated as a speaker in the 4th Asian Mediation Association Conference “New Global Trend of Mediation – Similarities and Differences (國際調解新趨勢 – 共性與差異)” held in Beijing |
| 20-22 | Together with the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the Supreme Court of Singapore, the Judiciary organised the Fifth Judicial Seminar on Commercial Litigation in Hong Kong |
| 21 | The term of office of the Hon Mr Justice Patrick CHAN, Non-Permanent Hong Kong Judge of the Court of Final Appeal, was extended for a period of three years |
| 30 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the Hong Kong Scout Rally 2016 |
| 1-4 | Mr Registrar LUNG Kim-wan, Registrar of the High Court, attended the 10th International Forum on the Electronic Apostille Program and the Special Commission Meeting on the Practical Operation of the Apostille Convention in the Hague, the Netherlands |
| 3 | A 13-member delegation from the Justice Departments/Bureaux of the People's Republic of China visited the Judiciary |
| 8-11 | Mr LEE Hing-nin, Clement, Chief Magistrate and Mr HO Chun-yiu, Magistrate, attended the 2016 Asia Pacific Coroners’ Society Conference in Perth, Australia |
| 9 | A three-member delegation from Singapore Academy of Law visited the Judiciary |
| 11 | The Rt Hon the Baroness HALE of Richmond, Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, delivered a talk entitled “A Child’s Human Rights” at the High Court |
| 13-19 | The Hon Mr Justice Andrew CHEUNG, Chief Judge of the High Court, the Hon Mr Justice Jeremy POON, Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court, the Hon Madam Justice Anthea PANG, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, His Honour Judge Justin KO, Acting Chief District Judge, Master Andy HO, Senior Deputy Registrar of the High Court and His Honour Judge Anthony KWOK, District Judge, visited various law court buildings at Perth, Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia |
| 13-20 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA delivered the Birkenhead Lecture 2016 with the topic "Straight and Crooked Thinking: The Search for What is Right" organised by Gray's Inn; the Cambridge Allen & Overy Annual Law Lecture 2016 with the topic "What Have Ships Ever Done for You? The Impact of Maritime Law" organised by the University of Cambridge and a speech for the University of Birmingham Leaders in Law Series. He also gave talks to Hong Kong students at the University College London and at the lunch organised by the Hong Kong Association. |
| 21 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the Annual Cocktail Reception of The Law Society of Hong Kong |
| 1 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA was conferred to the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, and delivered a speech at the 82nd Congregation for the Conferment of Degrees of the Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 10 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the Hong Kong Scout Centennial Building Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony of the Scout Association of Hong Kong |
| 12 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA delivered a speech at the School of Law Graduation Ceremony of the City University of Hong Kong |
| 13 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the ceremony for the Nanjing Massacre National Memorial Day |
| 14 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the Bar Scholarship Presentation Ceremony |
| 16 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the 2016 Law Society Pro Bono and Community Service Award Presentation Ceremony |
| 17 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the Law Week and Teen Talk 2016 Opening Ceremony |
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