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Appointment of HKSCC Director
The Financial Secretary has appointed Mr Denis M P C Ho as an independent director of the Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Limited (HKSCC) with immediate effect until the 1996 Annual General Meeting of the HKSCC, the Secretary for Financial Services, Mr Michael Cartland, announced today (Thursday).
Under the Articles of Association of the HKSCC, the Financial Secretary may at any time appoint not more than five persons as directors of the HKSCC to represent public interest.
In addition to Mr Ho, the other four independent directors are Professor Chan Yuk-shee, Mr William Ebsworth, Mr Stuart Leckie and Mr Donald Yap.
end/Thursday, December 1, 1994
Appointment of five judges.
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The following is issued on behalf of the Judiciary:
The Judiciary announced today (Thursday) the appointment of two Justices of Appeal, two Judges of the High Court and one District Judge.
The two Justices of Appeal are appointed from within the Judiciary. They are High Court Judges Mr Justice Liu and Mr Justice Mayo.
Mr William Waung Sik-ying, a local barrister, and Mr Conrad Seagroatt,QC, a barrister from the United Kingdom, are appointed Judges of the High Court. Mr Steven Ronald Bailey, a Deputy Principal Crown Counsel of the Legal Department is appointed District Judge.
Mr Justice Liu, Mr Waung and Mr Bailey's appointments will take effect from next Monday (December 5) while the appointments of Mr Seagroatt and Mr Justice Mayo will take effect respectively in early January and April next year.