Court of Final Appeal (Hong Kong) Totally Explained

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ť For the Court of Final Appeal in Macau, see Court of Final Appeal, Macau.The Court of Final Appeal is the court with the final adjudication power on the laws of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ("Hong Kong").

In Hong Kong, the power of final adjudication (court of last resort) on the laws of Hong Kong, which was formerly vested in the Privy Council during the British colonial administration, is now vested in the Court of Final Appeal after Hong Kong's handover to the People's Republic of China ("the PRC") on 1st July 1997.
   Under the Basic Law, the constitutional document of Hong Kong, the region remains a common law jurisdiction. Consequently, judges from other common law jurisdictions (including England and Wales) can be recruited and continue to serve in the judiciary according to Article 92 of the Basic Law.
   On the other hand, the power of interpretation of the Basic Law, being part of the national law of the PRC, is vested in the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China (NPCSC) by virtue of Article 158 of the Basic Law. However, the same Article delegates such power to the courts of Hong Kong for interpretation while handling court cases. Although this arrangement has attracted criticism of "undermining judicial independence", it must be noted that issuing an interpretation doesn't affect any court judgments already passed. The courts' power of interpretation is necessary for any judicial activities to be carried out. Controversy regarding this power of interpretation arose in the right of abode issue in 1999.
   The court is located in the Former French Mission Building, in Central. The Hong Kong Government is planning to relocate it to the present Legislative Council building, which was originally designed to be a lawcourt and was once the location of the colonial Supreme Court.

List of judges

Permanent Judges of the Court of Final Appeal

Title and name	Date of birth	Appointed by	Took office	Prior positions
Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal The Hon Mr Justice Andrew Li Kwok-nang	December 1948	Tung Chee-Hwa	1997	Deputy (part time) Judge of the District Court of Hong Kong 1982, Justice of the Peace 1985, Deputy High Court Judge 1991, member of the Executive Council at-large 1992
The Hon Mr Justice Bokhary	1947	Tung Chee-Hwa	1997	Judge of the High Court, Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal 1993-1997
The Hon Mr Patrick Chan		Tung Chee-Hwa	2000	Chief Judge of the High Court
The Hon Mr Justice Ribeiro	1949	Tung Chee-Hwa	2000	Recorder of the High Court of Hong Kong 1997, Judge of the High Court 1999, Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal

Non-Permanent Judges of the Court of Final Appeal

Title and name	Date of birth	Appointed by	Took office	Prior positions
Sir Derek Cons	15 July 1928			President of the Court of Appeals of Brunei
Mr William James Silke
Mr Kutlu Tekin Fuad				Appellate Court of Brunei
Hon Mr Philip Gerard Clough
Sir Noel Plunkett Power, GBS		Tung Chee-Hwa	1997	acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong 1996-1997; magistrate, member of the Lands Tribunal, Justice of the High Court (Hong Kong)
Hon Mr Gerald Paul Nazareth, GBS				Justice of the Court of Appeal of Bermuda
The Hon Mr John Barry Mortimer, GBS QC	7 August 1931	Tung Chee-Hwa	1997	High Court Judge from 1985 to 1993, a Justice of Appeal from 1993 to 1997, and from 1997 to 1999 served as Vice President of the Court of Appeal
The Hon Mr Henry Denis Litton, GBM	1934	Tung Chee-Hwa	1997	Chairman of Hong Kong Bar Association; Vice President of the Court of Appeal 1995-1997; Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal 1997-2000
The Hon Sir Anthony Mason	1925	Tung Chee-Hwa	1997	former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia and judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
The Rt Hon the Lord Hoffmann	1934 /			Law Lord (UK), House of Lords
The Hon Sir Gerard Brennan	1928	Tung Chee-Hwa	2000	former Chief Justice of Australia, High Court of Australia; Federal Court of Australia
The Rt Hon Sir Thomas Eichelbaum GBE	1931 /	Donald Tsang	2006	former Chief Justice of New Zealand
The Rt Hon the Lord Millett	1932	Tung Chee-Hwa	2000	Law Lord, House of Lords (UK)
The Rt Hon the Lord Woolf of Barnes (Harry Kenneth Woolf)	1933	Tung Chee-Hwa	2003	Law Lord and former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
The Rt Hon the Lord Scott of Foscote	1934 /	Tung Chee-Hwa	2003	Law Lord (UK), House of Lords (UK); High Court of Justice Chancery Division, Lord Justice of Appeal, Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court, Head of Civil Justice, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
The Rt Hon Sir Ivor Richardson	24 May 1930	Tung Chee-Hwa	2003	former President of the NZ Court of Appeal, former Chancellor of, and Dean and Professor of Law, at Victoria University of Wellington; Distinguished Fellow at the Law School at Victoria University
Mr Michael McHugh -	1935	Donald Tsang	2005	former justice of the High Court of Australia (until 2005)

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