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.

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]

Education and legal career

Fung was educated at

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]

Judicial career

In 1993, Fung joined the bench as a

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

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]

Awards

• 2017 Gold Bauhinia Star (in recognition of his distinguished service as the Chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission)^[19][20]

References