王詩麗

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Wong Sze-lai (born 1972 in Hong Kong) is a District Judge. She obtained an LL.B. and a Postgraduate Certificate in Laws from the University of Hong Kong in 1994 and 1995 respectively, and a Master of Laws in Chinese and Comparative Law from the City University of Hong Kong in 2004. She was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 1995 and practised in private practice from 1996 until she joined the then Legal Department (later the Department of Justice) as a prosecutor in 1997; she was promoted to Senior Government Counsel in 2000. She was appointed a Permanent Magistrate on 7 January 2013 and, on 15 March 2022, was appointed a District Judge. Judge Wong's experience spans the Bar, criminal prosecution and the magistracy, and she holds a master's degree in Chinese and comparative law. She specialised in criminal prosecution at the then Legal Department and the Department of Justice before serving in the magistracy from 2013, and also sat as a Deputy District Judge hearing riot cases arising from the 2019 events. As a District Judge she has handled serious criminal cases, including a 2025 cross-border money-laundering case involving the smuggling of cash worth over HK$200 million, in which she imprisoned two defendants. The magistracy handles the great majority of criminal cases in Hong Kong and is the first tier of the criminal justice system, while in the District Court civil claims generally range from HK$75,000 to HK$3 million and the maximum sentence is seven years' imprisonment.