Judiciary announces Anthony Kin Keung Chan appointed Court of Appeal judge; senior counsel Eugene Ting Sek Fung appointed Court of First Instance judge
司法機構公布 陳健強獲任上訴庭法官 資深大狀馮庭碩獲任原訟庭法官
The Judiciary announced on Thursday (11th) that Chief Executive John Lee had appointed High Court Judge of the Court of First Instance Anthony Kin Keung Chan as a judge of the Court of Appeal, and senior counsel Eugene Ting Sek Fung as a judge of the High Court’s Court of First Instance. The appointments were made by the Chief Executive on the recommendation of the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission and took effect on Friday. According to records, Anthony Kin Keung Chan handled a number of applications related to the National Security Law, including a case in which Jimmy Lai sought permission to exercise voting rights after shares in Next Digital were frozen by the Security Bureau; the Department of Justice’s application for an injunction against the song “Glory to Hong Kong”; and a dispute involving a Portuguese defendant in the Hong Kong Independence Party case over whether the defendant had lost Chinese nationality. Eugene Ting Sek Fung is in private practice and has handled several high-profile inheritance disputes, including the inheritance dispute involving the family of Henry Fok and the Eagle Holdings inheritance dispute. In recent years, Eugene Ting Sek Fung represented the Inland Revenue Department in a case concerning whether payments received by doctor Ka Lau Leung from the Hospital Authority as compensation under its on-call system were taxable, and won the final appeal.
司法機構周四（11 日）公布，特首李家超委任高等法院原訟庭法官陳健強為上訴庭法官，另委任資深大律師馮庭碩為高院原訟庭法官。兩人的委任是由特首根據司法人員推薦委員會的推薦而作出，由周五起生效。 翻查資料，陳健強處理過多宗《國安法》相關申請案件，包括壹傳媒股份被保安局凍結後，黎智英要求獲准行使投票權案、律政司申請就《願榮光歸香港》頒禁制令案，以及香港獨立黨案葡籍被告爭議已失中國籍案。 馮庭碩為私人執業，處理過數宗矚目爭產案，包括霍英東家族爭產案、鷹君爭產案。近年則代表稅務局，就醫生梁家騮獲醫管局賠償候召制度款項需否課稅一案，提出終極上訴為勝訴。