The Honourable Mr Justice Keith Yeung Kah-hung | |
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楊家雄 | |
Judge of the Court of First Instance | |
Assumed office 2019 | |
Director of Public Prosecutions | |
In office 9 September 2013 – 8 September 2017 | |
Preceded by | Kevin Zervos |
Succeeded by | David Leung |
Personal details | |
Born | 1964 (age 59–60) Hong Kong |
Alma mater | University of Hong Kong |
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Chinese name | |||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 楊家雄 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 杨家雄 | ||||||||||||
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Vietnamese name | |||||||||||||
Vietnamese | Duong Gia-Hung |
Keith Yeung Kah-hung SC ( Chinese: 楊家雄) is a Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong, and was previously the 5th Director of Public Prosecutions of Hong Kong.
Keith Yeung - Dương Gia-hùng received an LLB in 1986 and a PCLL in 1987 from the University of Hong Kong. [1]
Yeung was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 1987 and was a barrister in private practice between 1988 and 2013. He was a member of Plowman Chambers. [2] He took silk in 2009. [1]
On 1 August 2013, Yeung was appointed as the Director of Public Prosecutions of Hong Kong. [3] He was the first ethnic Chinese to take up this post. [4]
Yeung sat as a Deputy Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong for periods in 2013, 2018 and 2019. [1]
On 29 July 2019, Yeung was appointed a Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong. [1] [5]
Yeung was the Returning Officer for the 2022 Hong Kong Chief Executive election. [6]