Chief Justice of Hong Kong or erroneously Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong (Chinese: 首席按察司, later on 首席大法官) was the most senior judge in the court system in Hong Kong until 1997.
The position was renamed in 1997 as Chief Judge of the High Court, while the role of head of the Hong Kong Judiciary was assumed by the Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal.
A list of former justices of the Supreme Court:
| Name | Tenure |
|---|---|
| John Walter Hulme | 1844-1860 |
| William Henry Adams | 1860-1865 |
| Sir John Jackson Smale | 1866-1881 |
| Sir George Phillippo | 1882-1888 |
| Sir James Russell | 1888-1892 |
| Sir Fielding Clarke | 1894 |
| Sir John Worrell Carrington | 1896-1901 |
| Sir William Meigh Goodman | 1902-1905 |
| Sir Francis Piggott | 1905-1912 |
| Sir William Rees-Davies | 1912-1924 |
| Sir Henry Cowper Gollan | 1924- |
| Sir Joseph Horsford Kemp | 1930-1933 |
| Sir Alasdair Duncan Atholl MacGregor | 1934- |
| Sir Henry William Bulter Blackall | 1946- |
| Sir Leslie Bertram Gibson | 1948- |
| Sir Gerard Lewis Howe | 1951- |
| Sir Michael Hogan | 1955-1970 |
| Sir Ivo Charles Clayton Rigby | 1971-1975 |
| Sir Geoffrey Briggs | 1973-1978 |
| Sir Denys Roberts | 1979-1988 |
| Sir Ti-liang Yang | 1988-1996 |
| Sir Noel Power | 1996-1997 (Acting) |
List of Chief Judges of the High Court, who replace the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court after 1997:
| Name | Tenure |
|---|---|
| Patrick Chan | 1997-2000 |
| Arthur Leong Siu-chung | 2001-2003 |
| Geoffrey Ma | 2003-2010 |
| Andrew Cheung |
Famous quotes containing the words chief, justice, supreme and/or court:
“On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which becomes at the White House is more in keeping with the temperament, but when taken into consideration that I go into history as President, and my children and my children’s children are the better placed on account of that fact, I am inclined to think that to be President well compensates one for all the trials and criticisms he has to bear and undergo.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“...I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper. The blessing of the wretched came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban. I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger. I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made them drop their prey from their teeth.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 29:12-17.
Job, recounting his faithfulness.
“For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)