石永泰

English

Paul Shieh Wing-tai SC, born in 1965, is a Hong Kong Senior Counsel who chaired the Hong Kong Bar Association in 2013 and 2014 and practises from Temple Chambers in Admiralty. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1987 and took the Bachelor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford in 1989. He was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 1988 and appointed Senior Counsel in 2003. In 2003 he served as Deputy Registrar of the High Court, and since 2006 he has been a Recorder of the Court of First Instance. On 30 December 2011 the Judiciary announced that six sitting recorders had been reappointed for three years from 1 January 2012, Shieh among them, on the recommendation of the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission. Within the Bar Association, its record of past chairmen and officers shows him as a Vice-Chairman for six consecutive years from 2007 to 2012 and as Chairman in 2013 and 2014. The Bar's register lists 1988 as his year of call in Hong Kong, 2003 as the year he was appointed Senior Counsel, and Temple Chambers as his chambers. The Government releases and the Bar's records are confined to his year of birth, education, year of call, judicial appointments and Bar Association offices; they say nothing about his family, other public appointments or later career changes, and this entry deliberately adds nothing beyond them.