THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1992
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TWO HIGH COURT JUDGES APPOINTED
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THE JUDICIARY ANNOUNCED TODAY (THURSDAY} THE APPOINTMENTS OF TWO HIGH COURT JUDGES.
THEY ARE MR PATRICK CHAN SIU-OI AND MR FRANK
APPOINTMENTS TOOK EFFECT TODAY.
MR CHAN WAS BORN IN HONG KONG IN OCTOBER 1948.
STOCK, QC. THE
HE WAS EDUCATED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG WHERE HE OBTAINED HIS BACHELOR OF LAWS DEGREE WITH HONOURS IN 1974 AND WAS NOMINATED AS ONE OF TWO OUTSTANDING GRADUATES OF THE YEAR IN THE LAW FACULTY.
HE TOOK HIS P.C.LL. WITH DISTINCTION THE FOLLOWING YEAR.
IN
IN 1976, MR CHAN WAS CALLED TO THE BAR IN HONG KONG AND WAS PRIVATE PRACTICE UNTIL APPOINTED A DISTRICT COURT JUDGE IN NOVEMBER 1987. HE WAS APPOINTED A DEPUTY REGISTRAR IN JANUARY 1991.
APART FROM HIS JUDICIAL WORK, MR CHAN IS CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT EXAMINATION BOARD ON THE P.C.LL. AND A CONSULTANT EDITOR OF HONG KONG LAW DIGEST.
HE IS AN HONORARY LECTURER AT HONG KONG UNIVERSITY AND IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WORK AT THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG.
HE IS CHAIRMAN OF THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY SERVICE CENTRE AND A MEMBER OF VARIOUS COMMITTEES UNDER THE HONG KONG CARITAS.
HE IS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL WORK TRAINING AND MANPOWER PLANNING OF THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT AND OF THE SOCIAL WELFARE POLICIES AND SERVICES SUPPORT SUB-COMMITTEE.
HE IS THE PATRON OF HONG KONG SOCIAL WORKERS ASSOCIATION.
MR CHAN, WHO IS MARRIED, HAS BEEN SITTING AS A DEPUTY HIGH COURT JUDGE SINCE SEPTEMBER 2, 1991.
MR STOCK WAS BORN IN RHODESIA IN JUNE 1945 AND EDUCATED THERE.
IN 1964 HE ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL IN WHERE HE GRADUATED IN 1967.
YEAR.
ENGLAND
HE WAS CALLED TO THE BAR OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN THE FOLLOWING
HE THEN SERVED HIS PUPILLAGE IN THE CHAMBERS OF THE LATE JOHN WILMERS, QC AND THEREAFTER WAS OFFERED A TENANCY IN THE SAME CHAMBERS.
IN 1978, MR STOCK JOINED THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT AS CROWN COUNSEL WHERE HE WAS ATTACHED TO THE PROSECUTIONS DIVISION.
/HE WAS
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