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Beeson joined the Hong Kong Judiciary as a magistrate in 1984 and became principal magistrate in 1990. She was appointed a District Court judge in 1991. [2] On 1 December 1997, Beeson moved from her position as Chief District Judge to the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong. [3] [4] In 2013, Beeson retired from the bench.
The District Court is the intermediate court system in Hong Kong, having limited criminal and civil jurisdictions. The District Court was established in 1953 with the enactment of the District Court Ordinance. [1] It is located in the Wanchai Law Courts, Wanchai Tower, 12 Harbour Road.
Hong Kong judges wear British-style outfits, including wigs made of horsehair, with white gloves, girdles and scarlet-coloured robes added for official ceremonies. [4] In the lower courts, magistrates are addressed as "your Worship", "Sir" or "Madam", and district court judges as "your Honour".
The vice presidents of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong are senior justices of appeal who have been appointed by the chief judge of the High Court of Hong Kong to preside over certain divisions of the Court of Appeal. Originally, there were only two vice presidents, dealing with the criminal division and civil division respectively.
Yeung was one of the pioneers of judicial bilingualism in Hong Kong: in the December 1995 case Sun Er-jo v.Lo Ching & Ors, Case No. 3283/1995, he was the first High Court judge to conduct a civil hearing using Cantonese as the language of the courtroom, and the first to use written Chinese to deliver a judgment.
Sir Alan Armstrong Huggins (Traditional Chinese: 赫健士爵士, 15 May 1921 – 10 December 2009) was a British colonial judge serving in places including Uganda, Hong Kong and Brunei. He spent nearly 40 years in the judiciary of Hong Kong , serving as a Vice-President of the Court of Appeal from 1980 to 1987.
Kwok was born in Hong Kong in 1959 and obtained Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) and Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (P.C.LL.) from the University of Hong Kong in 1981 and 1982 respectively. He was called to the Bar in Hong Kong in 1982 and was in private practice from 1983 until 1992 when he joined the judiciary as Permanent Magistrate in 1992.
Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal: QC (1985) 3 Michael John Hartmann, GBS: 2000–08 Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal (retired) 4 Andrew Cheung Kui-nung, GBM: 2008–11 3rd Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal: 5 Johnson Lam Man-hon: 2011–12 Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal: 6 Thomas Au Hing ...