姚勳智

English

Yiu Fun Che (born 1969) is a District Judge. He studied law at the City University of Hong Kong, graduating with an LLB in 1992 and a Postgraduate Certificate in Laws in 1993, and later obtained a Master of Laws from the University of Hong Kong in 2007. He was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 1993 and practised from 1994 to 2001. He joined the Judiciary in 2001 as a Magistrate, and on 28 September 2009 was appointed a District Judge, handling criminal and civil cases in the District Court. Judge Yiu has tried a number of cases concerning public order and serious crime. He has handled unlawful assembly and riot cases arising from the 2019 public events, including sentencing a young defendant to a training centre and, in a riot case, adopting a starting point of more than four years and ultimately imposing three and a half years' imprisonment; he has also tried a case involving correctional services officers assaulting a detainee. Holding both a bachelor's and a master's degree in law, Judge Yiu moved from the Bar to the magistracy and then to the District Court bench. The District Court deals with criminal cases of moderate seriousness and civil claims of moderate value and forms an important part of Hong Kong's court system; he has served the Judiciary for more than two decades, mainly hearing criminal cases. Serving as a magistrate from 2001, he gained frontline adjudication experience before his appointment to the District Court bench in 2009; he also obtained a Master of Laws in 2007.