Barnabas Fung

Barnabas Fung Wah, GBS (Chinese: 馮驊; born 1960) is a Hong Kong judge. He has served as a High Court Judge since 2006 and as Chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission since 2009.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Fung.
The Honourable Mr Justice

Barnabas Fung Wah

GBS
馮驊
Chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission
Assumed office
2009
Preceded byPang Kin-kee
Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court
Assumed office
2006
Chief District Judge
In office
2001–2006
Preceded byRichard Hawkes
Succeeded byPatrick Li
District Judge
In office
1998–2001
Permanent Magistrate
In office
1993–1998
Personal details
Born1960 (age 60–61)
Hong Kong
Alma materUniversity of New South Wales
University of Hong Kong
Barnabas Fung
Traditional Chinese馮驊
Simplified Chinese冯骅

Since 2016, Fung has served as a Panel Judge handling interception and surveillance authorisation requests from law enforcement agencies.[1]

He previously served as Chairman and Director of the Hong Kong Children's Choir.[2]

Fung was educated at Wah Yan College, Hong Kong and Barker College, Australia.[3] He graduated from the University of New South Wales with a BComm and LLB in 1984 and 1985 respectively. He obtained his PCLL from the University of Hong Kong in 1986.[4]

Fung was called to the New South Wales Bar and Hong Kong Bar in 1985 and 1986 respectively. He was a barrister in private practice in Hong Kong from 1987 to 1993.[4]

Judicial career

In 1993, Fung joined the bench as a Permanent Magistrate. He became a District Judge in 1998 and was subsequently appointed as Chief District Judge in 2001.[4][5]

Fung sat as a Deputy High Court Judge intermittently from December 2001 to July 2006.[6][7][8][9][10][11]

In November 2006, Fung was appointed as a Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court.[4] He was the Judge in charge of the Personal Injury List from 2008 to 2010.

Fung acted as Returning Officer for the 2007 Hong Kong Chief Executive election.[12]

In 2009, Fung was appointed as Chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission.[13] He was re-appointed in 2013 and 2017 (for a term of 5 years until 2022).[14][15]

In 2017, Fung was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star.[16]

References
  1. "Government announces appointment of Panel Judge under Interception of Communications and Surveillance Ordinance". Government of Hong Kong. 28 October 2016.
  2. "The Hon Justice Barnabas Fung". University of New South Wales.
  3. "Hong Kong Judiciary Annual Report 2001" (PDF). Judiciary of Hong Kong. p. 104.
  4. "Judicial appointments". Government of Hong Kong. 24 November 2006.
  5. "Judicial Appointment". Government of Hong Kong. 27 April 2001.
  6. "G.N. 7321", Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 48, Vol. 5, 30 November 2001)
  7. "G.N. 2380", Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 17, Vol. 6, 26 April 2002)
  8. "G.N. 8261", Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 53, Vol. 8, 31 December 2004)
  9. "G.N. 1440", Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 13, Vol. 9, 1 April 2005)
  10. "G.N. 6214", Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 48, Vol. 9, 2 December 2005)
  11. "G.N. 3655", Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 23, Vol. 10, 9 June 2006)
  12. "G.N. 967", Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 6, Vol. 11, 9 February 2007)
  13. "Appointments to the Electoral Affairs Commission". Government of Hong Kong. 27 July 2009.
  14. "Re-appointment of Chairman of Electoral Affairs Commission". Government of Hong Kong. 21 June 2013.
  15. "Re-appointment of Chairman of Electoral Affairs Commission". Government of Hong Kong. 14 June 2017.
  16. "G.N.(E.) 43" Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 36, Vol. 21 (Extraordinary), 30 June 2017)
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