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:
“Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit;Mnot to be reckoned one character;Mnot to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)
“And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an Eagle: in the New it is a Dove. Christ insists on the Dove: but in His supreme moments He includes the Eagle.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“You don’t need to know who’s playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles.”
—James Baker (b. 1930)