陳景生

English

Edward Chan King-sang SC is a Hong Kong Senior Counsel, called to the Bar in Hong Kong in 1975 and appointed Senior Counsel in 1989; the Bar List also records his 1974 call in England, and gives his chambers as Sir Oswald Cheung’s Chambers. The Hong Kong Bar Association’s table of past chairmen and officers records him as a Vice-Chairman in 2001 and 2002 and as Chairman in 2003 and 2004. The table lists the Chairman, Vice-Chairmen and Honorary Secretary year by year, and his name appears in those four rows; in 2001 and 2002 the vice-chairmanship was shared with one other Senior Counsel, and from 2003 the chairmanship was his alone. The two sets of years mean different things: “Senior Counsel (1989)” is the year of appointment, while “Hong Kong (1975)” is the year of call. They are fourteen years apart and neither can stand in for, or be added to, the other. His appointment as Senior Counsel predates the online press-release archive, which begins in 1997, so there is no official appointment biography to cite; the Bar List carries no education or practice areas either, and those points are left blank.