The Hon Mrs Justice CAMPBELL-MOFFAT, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, meets with a delegation from the Busan American Law Study Association of Korea (4 January)

Chief Justice MA meets with a group of 42 delegation heads of representatives of legal professions from the Mainland and overseas attending the 2018 Legal Year Opening at the Court of Final Appeal (8 January)

The Hon Mr Justice FUNG, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, meets with an eight-member delegation led by Mr LIU Zheng, Deputy Director of the Judges Management Division of the Human Resources Department of the Supreme People’s Court (17 January)

The Hon Madam Justice POON, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, meets with a delegation from the Korean Association of Law Schools (23 January)

The Hon Mr Justice TANG, Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal, delivers a speech at Dr Mok Hing Yiu Lecture 2018 at the St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford (22 February)(Photo: John Cairns)

Miss Emma LAU, Judiciary Administrator, receives a delegation led by Ms Juthika RAMANATHAN, Chief Executive, Judiciary Administration and Operations of the Supreme Court of Singapore (8-9 March)

The Hon Madam Justice Mimmie CHAN, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, meets with Ms Camilla GODMAN, Regional Director for the Far East and Australasia of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (13 March)

The Hon Mr Justice LAM, Vice-President of the Court of Appeal of the High Court, meets with James SOUTH, Managing Director of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (15 March)

Mr Registrar LUNG, Registrar of the High Court, meets with Mr LU Weidong, Director of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Justice (19 March)

Mr Registrar KWANG, Registrar of the Court of Final Appeal, meets with a group of law students from De Montfort University Leicester of England (23 March)

Chief Justice MA attends the Opening of the Conference “The HCCH 125 ––– Ways Forward: Challenges and Opportunities in an Increasingly Connected World” organised by the Hague Conference on Private International Law (18 April)

Deputy High Court Judge POON meets with the school students participating in the “TargetLaw” Programme organised by the law students of various local and overseas universities (25 April)

Chief Justice MA, the Hon Mr Justice CHEUNG, Chief Judge of the High Court, and Miss Emma LAU, Judiciary Administrator, meet with the Chairman of the Law Committee of the 12th National People’s Congress, QIAO Xiaoyang (27 April)

Chief Justice MA delivers a speech entitled “Criticism of the courts and judges: informed criticism and otherwise” in the 2018 Oration of the Supreme Court of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He also gives lectures at the University of Melbourne and the University of New South Wales in Australia (21-25 May)

The Hon Madam Justice CHU, Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court, meets with a group of 18 Mainland judges attending the 12th Advanced Programme for Chinese Senior Judges of the City University of Hong Kong (4 June)

The Hon Madam Justice CHU and the Hon Mr Justice PANG, Justices of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court, meet with an eight-member delegation from the Justice Departments/Bureaux of the Mainland (7 June)

The Hon Mr Justice AU and the Hon Mr Justice CHOW, Judges of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attend the Public Law Conference 2018 in Melbourne, Australia (11-13 July)

Ms Ada YIM, Acting Principal Magistrate, meets with a group of students participating in the Summer Exchange Programme co-organised by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hunan University (13 July)

Deputy High Court Judge YAU meets with students from the Law Schools of Peking University and Renmin University (16 July)

Mr Registrar LUNG, Registrar of the High Court, and Mr Registrar KWANG, Registrar of the Court of Final Appeal, meet with a 15-member delegation from the Provincial Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council (26 July)

Mr Registrar LUNG, Registrar of the High Court, and Mr Registrar KWANG, Registrar of the Court of Final Appeal, meet with a 10-member delegation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (30 July)

Chief Justice MA meets with a delegation of Judges from the United States and Pakistan (9-10 August)

Deputy High Court Judge POON meets with the Hon David O. CARTER, District Judge, District Court for the Central District of California, the United States, the Hon John R. TUNHEIM, District Judge, District Court for the District of Minnesota, the United States, and Ms Mira GUR-ARIE, Director, International Judicial Relations Office, the United States Federal Judicial Centre (9-10 August)

Chief Justice MA, the Hon Mr Justice CHEUNG, Chief Judge of the High Court, Mr Registrar KWANG, Registrar of the Court of Final Appeal, and Miss Emma LAU, Judiciary Administrator meet with Dr Michael HWANG, Chief Justice of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts, and Mrs Amna AL OWAIS, Chief Executive & Registrar of the DIFC Courts (10 August)

The Hon Mr Justice LAM, Vice-President of the Court of Appeal of the High Court, and the Hon Mr Justice LOK, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, meet with a four-member delegation led by Mr Justice BIRSS, Judge of the High Court of England and Wales of the United Kingdom (29 August)

Chief Justice MA and the Hon Mr Justice CHEUNG, Chief Judge of the High Court, visit various law courts in Zhejiang Province (12-14 September)

Chief Justice MA and the Hon Mr Justice CHEUNG, Chief Judge of the High Court, visit the Litigation Service Centre at the Hangzhou Internet Court (13 September)

The Hon Madam Justice AU-YEUNG and the Hon Madam Justice CHU, Judges of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attend the meeting of the Working Group on the draft Guide to Good Practice on Article 13(1)(b) of the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention held in The Hague, the Netherlands (18-21 September)

Mr Registrar KWANG, Registrar of the High Court, meets with a delegation from the Judicial Policy Research Institute of Korea (21 September)

Chief Justice MA and the Hon Madam Justice CHAN, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attend the Second Meeting of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts in New York, the United States (27-28 September)

A 13-member delegation of the Supreme People’s Court visits the Judiciary and participates in a seminar on intellectual property law organised by the Judiciary (9-10 October)

Chief Justice MA and the Hon Mr Justice YEUNG, Acting Chief Judge of the High Court, meets with Ms TAO Kai-yuan, Vice-President of the Supreme People’s Court (10 Oct)

The Hon Mr Justice HARRIS, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attends the 2nd Market-Orientated Bankruptcy Forum in Shenzhen (19 October)

His Honour Judge CHAN Chan-kok, Acting Principal Family Court Judge, attends an academic seminar on family law in Beijing (19-21 October)

The Hon Madam Justice CHU, Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court, meets with a group of 16 Mainland judges attending the 13th Advanced Programme for Chinese Senior Judges of the City University of Hong Kong (24 October)

Chief Justice MA speaks at the Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester Lecture 2018 on “The Dependency of Business and Finance on the Common Law in Hong Kong: a Paradigm Jurisdiction” at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom (7 November)

Mr Registrar KWANG, Registrar of the High Court, meets with Mr WANG Shengqian, Inspector and Deputy Director-General of the Second Board in General Office of the State Council (8 November)

Mr Eric TAM, Principal Presiding Officer of the Labour Tribunal, meets with Mr Su Weidong, Vice Director of Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Baoshan District, Shanghai and Mr Zhan Hongyun, Deputy Director of the Court of Arbitration for Labour and Personnel Disputes of Wuhan (26 November)

Chief Justice MA meets with Mr SHEN Chunyao, Chairman of the Legislative Affairs Commission and Chairman of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Basic Law Committee, Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (3 December)

Chief Justice MA and the Hon Mr Justice CHEUNG, Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal, meet with the delegation led by Mr HU Yunteng, Grand Justice of the Second Rank of the Supreme People’s Court (6 December)

Master WONG of the High Court meets with the delegation of the Nanjing Court of Arbitration for Hong Kong and Macao (17 December)