繁體中文
施祖堯（Jeffrey Sze），香港裁判法院裁判官，一九八六年在香港出生。他二○○九年及二○一○年在香港城市大學分別取得法律學學士學位及法學專業證書，二○一一年在香港獲大律師資格，並於同年開始私人執業，直至二○二○年加入司法機構。
二○二○年四月二十日，施祖堯獲委任為常任裁判官，與周慧珠、翟國怡、林澤銘、楊綺娜、蕭志韻、龍軍庭、屈麗雯及余俊翔同日履新，任命由行政長官根據司法人員推薦委員會的推薦作出。由取得大律師資格至獲委任為裁判官約九年，同批獲委任的九名裁判官中，他是較年輕的一位。
裁判法院是香港的初級刑事法院，處理絕大部分刑事案件，包括簡易程序罪行及先在裁判法院提訊的公訴案件；裁判官亦負責處理保釋申請、簽發搜查令等程序，並可審理部分小額申索。裁判官日常須處理大量案件，審訊、程序與判刑交錯，工作節奏緊湊，須準確適用法律並保持一致的專業水平。據傳媒報道，施祖堯曾在西九龍裁判法院審理涉及欺詐的案件，其中一宗被告為一名前入境事務處人員，他在獲路德會啟聾學校聘用為教師時，向校方隱瞞自己正接受廉政公署調查及被起訴一事，經審訊後被裁定三項欺詐罪名成立；施祖堯判刑時斥被告心存僥倖、一開始已打算欺騙校方，判處監禁四星期，並指被告的行為損害學校聲譽。他亦審理過涉及工業安全的案件，包括一宗無牌電工學徒在工作期間觸電身亡的案件，四名承辦商被判罰款。截至二○二六年，他仍在裁判官名單之列，繼續在裁判法院審案。
English
Sze Cho-yiu is a magistrate of the Magistrates' Courts of Hong Kong, born in Hong Kong in 1986. He obtained a Bachelor of Laws and a Postgraduate Certificate in Laws from the City University of Hong Kong in 2009 and 2010 respectively, and was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 2011, beginning private practice the same year until he joined the Judiciary in 2020.
On 20 April 2020, Sze was appointed a Permanent Magistrate, taking office with Chau Wai-chu, Chak Kwok-yee, Lam Chak-ming, Yeung Yee-na, Siu Chi-wan, Lung Gwun-ting, Wat Lai-man and Yu Chun-cheung; the appointment was made by the Chief Executive on the recommendation of the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission. About nine years elapsed between his call to the Bar and his appointment as a magistrate, and he was one of the younger members of the nine appointees to the magistracy in 2020.
The Magistrates' Courts are Hong Kong's court of first instance for criminal matters, dealing with the great majority of criminal cases, from summary offences to indictable cases that first come before a magistrate; magistrates also deal with bail applications, the issue of search warrants and certain small claims, moving between trials, procedural matters and sentencing at a demanding pace. According to press reports, Sze has heard fraud cases at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts, including one in which a former Immigration Department officer, when employed as a teacher by a government-subsidised school, concealed from the school that he was under ICAC investigation and had been prosecuted; after trial he was convicted on three counts of fraud, and in sentencing Sze said the defendant had intended from the start to deceive the school, and imposed imprisonment. He remained on the list of serving magistrates as at 2026.
