駱應淦

English

Lawrence Lok SC is a Hong Kong Senior Counsel, called to the Bar in Hong Kong in 1979 and appointed Senior Counsel in 1994; the Bar List also records his 1978 call in England, and names his chambers as Lawrence Lok SC’s Chambers. The Hong Kong Bar Association’s table of past chairmen and officers records him as a Vice-Chairman in 1997 and 1998. Together with the Bar List, that gives a sequence: call in England in 1978, call in Hong Kong in 1979, Senior Counsel in 1994, Vice-Chairman of the Association in 1997 and 1998. The Bar List footnote matters here: the year of call in England and Wales or Northern Ireland is shortened to “England (year)”, and the year of call is not the year practice began and need not reflect seniority. That is why “1978” and “1979” must not be read as a two-year difference in experience. In institutional terms, Senior Counsel are appointed by the Chief Justice under section 31A of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, as the equivalent appointment releases put it. The 1994 appointment 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.