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A permanent magistrate is a full-time magistrate, and is assigned to sit in one of the seven magistrates' courts. The Chief Justice appoints on a temporary basis a number of principal and permanent magistrates to sit as a Master in the High Court [2] or to sit as a Deputy District Judge or Master in the District Court, Family Court or Lands Tribunal.
It replaced the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London as the highest appellate court of Hong Kong, The Court comprises five judges — the Chief Justice, three permanent judges and one non-permanent judge from Hong Kong or another common law jurisdiction. There is a panel of eight non-permanent Hong Kong judges and nine non ...
A chief magistrate is a public official, executive or judicial, whose office is the highest in its class. Historically, the two different meanings of magistrate have often overlapped and refer to, as the case may be, to a major political and administrative officer (usually at a subnational or colonial level) or a judge and barrister.
During British rule between 1843 and 1997, the head of the Hong Kong Judiciary was the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong; that position became the chief judge of the High Court in 1997. The first chief justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal was Andrew Li, who served for over 13 years.
Attorney General of Hong Kong from 1966 to 1973. Colonial/Chief Secretary from 1973 to 1979. 21: Sir Ti-liang Yang: 1988–1996 Sir David Wilson: First Chinese Chief Justice. Resigned to contest position of Chief Executive of Hong Kong. – Sir Noel Power: 1996–1997 Acting: Chris Patten: Acting CJ pending handover of Hong Kong to China 1997.
The Chief Judge heads the High Court of Hong Kong, which deals with criminal and civil cases that have risen beyond the lower courts. While the High Court consists of the Court of Appeal and the Court of First Instance , the Chief Judge himself generally only presides over appellate cases in the Court of Appeal, usually together with two other ...
Chief Magistrate: So Wai-tak; Special courts and tribunals: ... swear to uphold the Basic Law and swear their allegiance to the Hong Kong Special Administrative ...
Hong Kong's legal system was developed under British governance, based on the English common law. Under British rule, the constitutional documents that governed Hong Kong were the Letters Patent and the Royal Instructions, and judicial cases were generally appealable to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the UK. [3]