The Honourable Mr Justice Barnabas Fung Wah | |
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馮驊 | |
Chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission | |
In office 17 August 2009 – 16 August 2022 | |
Preceded by | Pang Kin-kee |
Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court | |
Assumed office 2006 | |
Chief District Judge | |
In office 2001–2006 | |
Preceded by | Richard Hawkes |
Succeeded by | Patrick Li |
District Judge | |
In office 1998–2001 | |
Permanent Magistrate | |
In office 1993–1998 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1960 (age 63–64) Hong Kong |
Alma mater |
University of New South Wales University of Hong Kong |
Barnabas Fung | |||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 馮驊 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 冯骅 | ||||||||||
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Barnabas Fung Wah, GBS ( Chinese: 馮驊; born 1960) is a Hong Kong judge. He has served as a High Court Judge since 2006.
Since 2016, Fung has served as a Panel Judge handling interception and surveillance authorisation requests from law enforcement agencies. [1] [2]
He was Chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission from 2009 to 2022.
He previously served as Chairman and Director of the Hong Kong Children's Choir. [3]
Fung was educated at Wah Yan College, Hong Kong and Barker College, Australia. [4] 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. [5]
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. [5]
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. [5] [6]
Fung sat as a Deputy High Court Judge intermittently from December 2001 to July 2006. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
In November 2006, Fung was appointed as a Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court. [5] 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. [13]
In 2009, Fung was appointed as Chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission. [14] He was re-appointed in 2013 and 2017 (for a term of 5 years until 2022). [15] [16] On 16 August 2022, it was announced that Fung's chairmanship of the EAC expired that day and the Government was actively identifying his successor, whose appointment would be announced in due course. [17]
Fung has sat in the Court of Appeal in a number of civil and criminal appeal cases. [18]