| 1 | Ms TAM Wan-chi, Winnie, SC; Mr WONG Kai-ming, Stewart, SC; and Ms CHAN Ching-fan, Linda, SC were re-appointed Recorders of the Court of First Instance of the High Court |
| 2 | Mr LEE Hing-nin, Clement was appointed District Judge |
| 4 | A seven-member delegation from the Busan American Law Study Association of Korea visited the Judiciary |
| 8 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA declared opening of the 2018 Legal Year |
| 8 | A group of 42 delegation heads of representatives of legal professions from the Mainland and overseas attending the 2018 Legal Year Opening visited the Court of Final Appeal |
| 17 | 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, visited the Judiciary |
| 23 | A 17-member delegation from the Korean Association of Law Schools visited the Judiciary |
| 1 | Mr FUNG Ting-sek, Eugene, SC; Mr Charles Peter MANZONI, SC; and Ms CHENG Wai-sum, Yvonne, SC were appointed Recorders of the Court of First Instance of the High Court |
| 22-23 | The Hon Mr Justice Robert TANG Ching, Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal, delivered a speech at Dr Mok Hing Yiu Lecture 2018 at the St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford and a talk at the University College London |
| 1 | The terms of office of the Hon Mr Justice Murray GLEESON, the Rt Hon the Lord NEUBERGER of Abbotsbury and the Rt Hon the Lord WALKER of Gestingthorpe, Non-Permanent Judges from other common law jurisdictions of the Court of Final Appeal, were extended for a period of three years |
| 8-9 | A seven-member delegation led by Ms Juthika RAMANATHAN, Chief Executive, Judiciary Administration and Operations of the Supreme Court of Singapore, visited the Judiciary |
| 10 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the 16th Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot |
| 13 | Ms Camilla GODMAN, Regional Director for the Far East and Australasia of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, visited the Judiciary |
| 15 | A two-member delegation led by Mr James SOUTH, Managing Director of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution, visited the Judiciary |
| 19 | Mr LU Weidong, Director of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Justice, visited the Judiciary |
| 20 | The Rt Hon Lord Robert REED, Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal, delivered a talk entitled “Back to Basics? Recent Developments in the UK Supreme Court” at the High Court |
| 23 | A 24-member student delegation from De Montfort University Leicester of England visited the Judiciary |
| 12 | The Hon Sir David FOSKETT, Judge of the High Court of England and Wales, delivered a talk entitled “Dispute resolution in the 21st century” at the High Court of Hong Kong |
| 18 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended 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 |
| 23 | The Hon Mr Justice Andrew C MACRAE, 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 |
| 25 | A group of participants of the “TargetLaw” Programme organised by law students of various local and overseas universities visited the Judiciary |
| 27 | Mr QIAO Xiaoyang, Chairman of the Law Committee of the 12th National People’s Congress, visited the Judiciary |
| 8 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA delivered a speech entitled “The Past 21 Years of the Common Law in Hong Kong: From Strength to Strength” at the invitation of the Hong Kong Chapter of the International Law Section of the Law Council of Australia |
| 21-25 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA delivered 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 and gave lectures at the University of Melbourne and the University of New South Wales. The Hon Mr Justice Andrew CHEUNG, Chief Judge of the High Court, delivered talks at the above two universities as well as the University of Queensland |
| 21 | A 25-member delegation of Mainland judges attending the Master of Laws Programme of the City University of Hong Kong visited the Judiciary |
| 2 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the Hong Kong Bar Association Debating Competition 2018 |
| 4 | A group of 18 Mainland judges attending the 12th Advanced Programme for Chinese Senior Judges of the City University of Hong Kong visited the Judiciary |
| 7 | An eight-member delegation from the Justice Departments/Bureaux of the Mainland visited the Judiciary |
| 9 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA presided over the 2018 Senior Counsel Admission Ceremony |
| 25 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the 5th Annual Conference of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) and delivered an opening address. The Hon Chief Justice MA also attended the 50th Anniversary Kick-off Ceremony of the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong and delivered an address |
| 11-13 | The Hon Mr Justice Thomas AU and the Hon Mr Justice Anderson CHOW, Judges of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attended Public Law Conference 2018 in Melbourne, Australia |
| 13 | A group of 33 students participating in the Summer Exchange Programme co-organised by New Asia College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hunan University visited the Judiciary |
| 16 | A 19-member student delegation from the Law Schools of Peking University and Renmin University visited the Judiciary |
| 26 | A 15-member delegation from the Provincial Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council visited the Judiciary |
| 26 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the Law Reform Commission Dinner and Essay Competition Award Ceremony 2018 |
| 27 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the Annual General Meeting of Scout Association of Hong Kong |
| 28 | The term of office of the Rt Hon the Lord MILLETT, Non-Permanent Judge from another common law jurisdiction of the Court of Final Appeal, was extended for a period of three years |
| 30 | A 10-member delegation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs visited the Judiciary |
| 30 | The Rt Hon the Baroness Brenda HALE of Richmond and the Rt Hon Beverley McLACHLIN were appointed Non-Permanent Judges from other common law jurisdictions of the Court of Final Appeal |
| 30 | The Hon Mr Justice Kevin Paul ZERVOS was appointed Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court |
| 9 | A delegation of judges from the Lahore High Court of Pakistan visited the Judiciary |
| 9-10 | A delegation comprising judges from the District Courts of the United States visited the Judiciary |
| 10 | 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, visited the Judiciary |
| 29 | A four-member delegation led by Mr Justice BIRSS, Judge of the High Court of England and Wales of the United Kingdom, visited the Judiciary |
| 10 | Mr KWANG Cheok-weung, Simon was appointed Registrar of the High Court |
| 12-14 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA led a delegation to visit various courts in Zhejiang Province at the invitation of the Supreme People’s Court |
| 12-15 | The Hon Mr Justice R A V RIBEIRO, Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal, attended the Global Constitutionalism Seminar 2018 held at the Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, the United States |
| 18-21 | The Hon Madam Justice Queeny AU-YEUNG and the Hon Madam Justice Bebe CHU, Judges of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attended 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 |
| 20 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA delivered a speech at the Hong Kong Forum: 60th Anniversary of the New York Convention jointly organised by the Department of Justice, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and the Asian Academy of International Law |
| 21 | A four-member delegation from the Judicial Policy Research Institute of Korea visited the Judiciary |
| 21-25 | The Hon Mr Justice Jonathan R HARRIS, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attended the Judicial Insolvency Network meeting and International Insolvency Institute’s 18th Annual Conference in New York, the United States |
| 21 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA opened the Hong Kong 2018 International Commercial Law Conference organised by the Victorian Bar and the Commercial Bar Association, Australia |
| 21 | A 63-member delegation from the Middle Temple, UK, visited the Judiciary; and the Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma and the Hon Mr Justice Aarif T BARMA, Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court, acted as judges of the Moot held by Middle Temple |
| 27-28 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA and the Hon Madam Justice Mimmie CHAN, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attended the second meeting of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts in New York, the United States |
| 1 | The term of office of the Rt Hon the Lord PHILLIPS of Worth Matravers, Non-Permanent Judge from another common law jurisdiction of the Court of Final Appeal, was extended for a period of three years |
| 9-10 | A 13-member delegation led by Ms TAO Kaiyuan, Vice-President of the Supreme People’s Court, visited the Judiciary and participated in seminar organised by the Judiciary |
| 19 | The Hon Mr Justice Jonathan R HARRIS, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, attended the 2nd Market-Orientated Bankruptcy Forum in Shenzhen |
| 19-21 | His Honour Judge CHAN Chan-kok, Acting Principal Family Court Judge, attended an academic seminar on family law in Beijing |
| 22 | Farewell Sitting in honour of the Hon Mr Justice Robert TANG, Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal, held in the Court of Final Appeal |
| 23 | A 12-member delegation from the Chinese Association of Case Study visited the Judiciary |
| 23-25 | Deputy High Court Judge Tony POON, Deputy Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court and Mr SO Wai-tak, Acting Chief Magistrate, attended the Judicial Leadership Program: Heads of Jurisdiction in Melbourne, Australia |
| 24 | A group of 16 Mainland judges attending the 13th Advanced Programme for Chinese Senior Judges of the City University of Hong Kong visited the Judiciary |
| 25 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA delivered opening remarks at the 7th Asia Pro Bono Conference in Hong Kong |
| 25 | The Hon Mr Justice Andrew CHEUNG was appointed Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal |
| 25 | The Hon Mr Justice Robert TANG was appointed Non-Permanent Hong Kong Judge of the Court of Final Appeal for a term of three years |
| 25 | The term of office of the Hon Mr Justice S K S BOKHARY, Non-Permanent Hong Kong Judge of the Court of Final Appeal, was extended for a period of three years |
| 28.10-3.11 | A six-member delegation led by the Hon Mr Justice Johnson Lam, Vice-President of the Court of Appeal of the High Court, visited Family Courts and met with Family Judges in Singapore and Melbourne and Sydney, Australia |
| 1-2 | The Hon Mr Justice Jeremy POON, Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court, attended the 9th AIJA Appellate Judges’ Conference in Brisbane, Australia |
| 7 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA spoke 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 |
| 8 | Mr WANG Shengqian, Inspector and Deputy Director-General of the Second Board in General Office of the State Council, visited the Judiciary |
| 13-16 | Ms Stephanie TSUI, Magistrate, attended the 2018 Asia Pacific Coroners’ Society Conference in Canberra, Australia |
| 16 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA delivered opening remarks at the Training Course on Private Financial Adjudication organised by the Committee on Family Law of the Hong Kong Bar Association |
| 17 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the Opening Ceremony of Law Week and Teen Talk 2018 |
| 26 | 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, visited the Judiciary |
| 3 | A four-member delegation led by Mr Shen Chunyao, Chairman, Legislative Affairs Commission; and Chairman, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Basic Law Committee, Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, visited the Judiciary |
| 3-7 | The Hon Mr Justice Andrew Colin MACRAE, Vice-President of the Court of Appeal of the High Court, and Master June CHEUNG, Temporary Deputy Registrar of the High Court, visited various law courts in London, the United Kingdom |
| 4 | An 11-member delegation from the Ministry of Employment and Labor of Korea visited the Labour Tribunal |
| 5 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the 61th Annual General Meeting of the Society of Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention, Hong Kong |
| 6 | A six-member delegation led by Mr HU Yunteng, Grand Justice of the Second Rank of the Supreme People’s Court, visited the Judiciary |
| 9-11 | The Hon Mr Justice Jeremy POON, Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court, attended a Judicial Roundtable organised by the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law and Law Faculty of the University of Hong Kong in Shanghai |
| 12 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the 2018 Law Society Pro Bono and Community Service Award Presentation Ceremony |
| 13 | The Hon Chief Justice Geoffrey MA attended the Ceremony on the Nanjing Massacre National Memorial Day |
| 17 | A six-member delegation from the Nanjing Court of Arbitration for Hong Kong and Macao visited the Judiciary |
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