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The Hon. C.Y. Kwan, 0.B.E.

Mr. Kwan Cho-yiu is senior partner of the legal firm of C.Y. Kwan &

Co., and is a director of many companies. He is an Unofficial Member of both

Executive and Legislative Councils. He has served on the Legislative Council

since July, 1959 and on the Executive Council since May, 1961. He was made an

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (0.B.E.) in the 1959 New Year Honours

and has been a Justice of the Peace since 1947. Educated at the Diocesan Boys'

School, Hong Kong, and at the University of London, where he graduated with the

Degree of LL.B. (Honours), he served articles of clerkship with Messrs. Ellis,

Bickersteth, Aglionby and Hazel, a firm of Solicitors in the City of London.

Having passed the Solicitors' Final Examination (with Honours), he was admitted

a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England in May, 1931, and subsequently in

the same year he was admitted a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong.

During the last war, he served as Officer-in-Charge of a food depot, Food

Control. He was Vice-President of the Standing Military Court during the

British Military Administration, and became First Magistrate on the

reinstallation of the civil govemment in Hong Kong after the Pacific War. He

was appointed Magistrate (for Tenancy Tribunal cases) in 1948, an Unofficial

Justice of the Peace in 1947 and a Member of the Committee on Chinese Law and

Custom in Hong Kong in 1948. He was President of the Law Society from 1950 to

1951, and a Member of the Committee of the Council of Social Service in 1950.

He is Vice-Chairman of the Committee of the Hong Kong Housing Society and one

of its founders, a Member of the School Council of the Diocesan Boys' School,

a Member of the Council of the C.M.S. Heep Yurn School, a Member of the Public

Services Commission for four months in 1955, Deputy Commissioner (Administration)

in the Civil Aid Services, Chairman of the Board of Examiners of the Civil Aid

Services from 1952 to May, 1958, and Chairman of the Civil Aid Services

Amenities Committee. He was appointed a Member of the Urban Council in March,

1956 for a term of two years, and re-appointed in March, 1958 for a further

term of four years from April 1, 1958. He resigned from the Urban Council on

March 30, 1961. He was Chairman of the Casam Club in 1958. He is a Member

of the Council of the Hong Kong Society for the Blind, a Member of the Chinese

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