陳貴春

English

Charles Chan Kwai-chun is a Hong Kong barrister, called in Hong Kong and in England in 1993, practising from Cedar Chambers. His career ran from the administrative service into the law, and the official press releases record the administrative half step by step. A release of 24 April 1997 announced that he would succeed Ip Choi-chin as District Officer (Kowloon City), taking up the post the next day. It recorded that he was then 31, joined the Government as an Administrative Officer in 1989, was promoted to Senior Administrative Officer in April 1996, and had served in the Health and Welfare Branch, the City and New Territories Administration, the Urban Services Department and the Telecommunications Authority. Earlier, a release of 30 March 1996 shows him joining a trade delegation to Beijing as Assistant Secretary for Trade and Industry, alongside the Principal Assistant Secretary and assistant directors of the Trade and Industry Departments. A release of 18 September 1998 calls him District Officer (Kowloon City) when he attended the opening ceremony of the Kowloon City road safety campaign. The two titles — District Officer in 1997 and District Officer (Kowloon City) of the Home Affairs Department in 1998 — reflect the post-handover renaming of departments rather than two different jobs. Neither the Bar List nor the releases record his education or the year he switched to the Bar, so both points are left blank rather than inferred.