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TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1980

NEW JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS

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HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN HAS APPROVED THE APPOINTMENT OF MR JUSTICE LEONARD, MR JUSTICE LI AND MR JUSTICE CONS TO BE JUSTICES OF APPEAL OF THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.

THE QUEEN HAS ALSO APPROVED THE APPOINTMENT OF MR ROSS GRANGE PENLINGTON, MR BENJAMIN LIU TSZ-NING, EDWARD DE BEAUVOIR BEWLEY, MR JOHN JAMES RHIND AND MR NE IL MACDOUGALL TO BE HIGH COURT JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT.

1980.

ALL THE JUDGES WILL TAKE UP THEIR APPOINTMENTS ON APRIL 1,

AT THE SAME TIME, THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS HAS APPROVED THE APPOINTMENT OF MR HENRY WONG WEI-CHOW MR PETER ALFRED GRANT CAMERON, MR BRIAN THOMAS CAIRD, MR GORDON NEIL CRUDEN, MR MORRIS STANLEY SHARWOOD,

MR CHARLES GERARD DOYLE AND MR BERNARD WILLIAM MCDONALD DOWNEY AS DISTRICT JUDGES. THEY WILL ALSO ALL TAKE UP THEIR APPOINTMENTS ON APRIL 1, 1980 EXCEPT MR DOWNEY WHO WILL ASSUME OFFICE LATER THIS YEAR.

THE FOLLOWING ARE BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES OF THE JUDGES +

MR JUSTICE LEONARD

HE WAS BORN IN IRELAND ON DECEMBER 28, 1919. HE WAS EDUCATED AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, CALLED TO THE IRISH BAR IN 1941 AND TO THE ENGLISH BÅR IN 1947. HE PRACTISED AT THE PRIVATE BAR IN IRELAND AND ALSO IN MALAYA AND SINGAPORE. HE JOINED THE HONG KONG JUDICIARY AS A MAGISTRATE IN 1957. BETWEEN 1961 AND 1970 HE WAS

IN THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS RISING TO THE POST OF PRINCIPAL CROWN COUNSEL. HE WAS APPOINTED A DISTRICT JUDGE IN 1970 AND PUISNE JUDGE (NOW JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT)

IN 1971. HE HAS SAT IN THE COURT OF APPEAL ON MANY OCCASIONS.

MR JUSTICE LI

HE WAS BORN IN HONG KONG ON APRIL 19, 1922, AND WAS EDUCATED AT KING'S COLLEGE AND HONG KONG UNIVERSITY, CHINA AND LONDON, HE WAS CALLED TO THE ENGLISH BAR IN 1951. HE JOINED THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT AS A CROWN COUNSEL IN 1953. IN 1957 HE SERVED AS A MAGISTRATE FOR A FEW MONTHS AND THEN RETURNED TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS WHERE HE BECAME SENIOR CROWN COUNSEL AND ALSO ACTED AS PRINCIPAL CROWN COUNSEL. HE WAS APPOINTED A DISTRICT JUDGE IN 1966 AND A PUISNE JUDGE (JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT) IN 1971. HE HAS SAT IN THE COURT OF APPEAL ON MANY OCCASIONS.

/MR JUSTICE CONS