翟紹唐

English

Jat Sew-tong SC is a Hong Kong Senior Counsel, called to the Bar in Hong Kong in 1989 and appointed Senior Counsel in 2002; the Bar List also records his 1988 call in England, and he now practises from Temple Chambers. On 26 March 2002 the Chief Justice, Andrew Li, announced the appointment of four Senior Counsel including Jat, effective 11 May 2002. The Judiciary biography issued that day recorded that he was then 36, practised commercial law, company law, defamation and general civil cases, and was then Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Hong Kong Bar Association. The Association’s table of past officers also lists him as Honorary Secretary in 2001 and 2002. In public service, when the Government announced the new IPCC Chairman on 30 May 2014 it noted that Jat had chaired the Independent Police Complaints Council since June 2008, leading it for six years, during which the Council became an independent statutory body and its complaint-review mechanism was refined; the appointments release of 28 December 2012 had already described him as the sitting Chairman. The two records also agree with each other: the 2002 biography describes him as the Association’s Honorary Secretary and Treasurer at the time, and the Association’s table lists him as Honorary Secretary in 2001 and 2002 — so he was on the Bar Council in the year he became Senior Counsel. Neither the Bar List nor the releases record his education; that point is left blank rather than inferred.