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, chief, justice, supreme and/or court:
“A judge is not supposed to know anything about the facts of life until they have been presented in evidence and explained to him at least three times.”
—Parker, Lord Chief Justice (1900–1972)
“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 23:23.
“The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind’s supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The city is recruited from the country. In the year 1805, it is said, every legitimate monarch in Europe was imbecile. The city would have died out, rotted, and exploded, long ago, but that it was reinforced from the fields. It is only country which came to town day before yesterday, that is city and court today.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)