法官及司法人員 / Judge / judicial officer
法官及司法人員
薛偉成
大字係界別(由已登記職業/領域派生),唔係姓氏。
高等法院上訴法庭法官(2018年起)
繁體中文
薛偉成(Kevin Paul Zervos),資深大律師,1953年生於澳洲墨爾本,希臘裔,現為香港永久性居民。他於1975年及1977年在澳洲莫納什大學分別取得科學學士(心理學)及法學士學位,其後於2009年在香港大學取得法學碩士(人權)學位。他早年曾在澳洲的特別檢察官辦公室及聯邦刑事檢控署任職,處理大型商業及金融罪案;1978年在維多利亞省最高法院獲大律師及律師資格,1983年在澳洲高等法院註冊,1991年取得新南威爾斯州大律師資格。他於1992年加入前律政署出任檢察官,1993年晉升為高級檢察官,1999年晉升為副首席政府律師,2008年晉升為首席政府律師;2001年在香港取得大律師資格,2003年獲委任為資深大律師。2011年3月,他獲委任為刑事檢控專員,主管全港刑事檢控工作,至2013年9月離任。2013年9月16日,他加入司法機構,出任高等法院原訟法庭法官;因曾擔任刑事檢控專員,他上任後首六個月不處理任何涉及政府的刑事審訊、上訴或民事案件。他在原訟法庭任內曾就一宗涉及人口販運及強迫勞動的司法覆核(ZN v 律政司司長,HCAL 15/2015)作出裁決,在長篇判詞中裁定《人權法案》第四條禁止奴役及強迫勞動的規定涵蓋相關情況,並指政府部門未有充分辨識及保護販運受害人。2018年7月30日,他獲委任為高等法院上訴法庭法官。他兼具刑事檢控與人權法的專長,在商業罪案及上訴工作方面經驗豐富。
English
Kevin Paul Zervos, SC, is of Greek descent and was born in Melbourne in 1953; he is a permanent resident of Hong Kong. He took a Bachelor of Science in Psychology in 1975 and an LLB in 1977 at Monash University, and later an LLM in human rights at the University of Hong Kong in 2009. After working in Australia with the Special Prosecutor's office and the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions on major commercial and financial crime, he was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 1978, registered in the High Court of Australia in 1983 and called to the New South Wales Bar in 1991. He joined the Legal Department in 1992 as a Crown Counsel, became a Senior Crown Counsel in 1993, Deputy Principal Government Counsel in 1999 and Principal Government Counsel in 2008; he was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 2001 and took silk in 2003. Director of Public Prosecutions from March 2011 to September 2013, he then joined the Judiciary as a Judge of the Court of First Instance on 16 September 2013, sitting for his first six months without any government cases, and in July 2018 became a Justice of Appeal of the High Court.