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司徒敬（Frank Stock），金紫荊星章，1945年生於非洲羅德西亞（即今津巴布韋）。1967年，他在英國利物浦大學取得法學士學位，1968年取得英格蘭大律師資格。1978年他來港，加入律政署出任檢察官，1979年升任高級檢察官，1984年任副首席檢察官；同年取得香港大律師資格，1985年獲委任為御用大律師。1987年至1991年間，他出任法律政策專員（Solicitor General），負責督導法律政策，並處理香港回歸過渡期的複雜法律及政策事宜。1991年他加入司法機構，出任高等法院暫委法官，1992年獲委任為高等法院法官，2000年獲委任為上訴法庭法官，2009年至2014年間擔任上訴法庭副庭長，任內審理大量刑事及憲制性上訴。他在多宗重大案件中作出裁決，例如處理逆轉舉證責任的Lam Kwong Wai及Hung Chan Wa案，以及關乎立法會功能界別公司票合憲性的Chan Yu Nam案，對本地刑事法及公法的發展影響深遠。他曾主持法律改革委員會轄下檢討傳聞證據及陪審員資格的小組，並在2013年設立香港司法學院一事上擔當重要角色。他自1991年加入司法機構後，先後在高等法院原訟法庭及上訴法庭任職逾二十年；2018年，他以非常任法官身分參與終審法院一宗涉及誹謗責任的終審上訴。他自2010年起出任終審法院非常任法官，2014年獲頒金紫荊星章。他由律政署檢控工作轉任法官，兼具檢控與審判經驗，並多次參與終審法院的聆訊。
English
Frank Stock, GBS, was born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1945. He graduated with an LLB from the University of Liverpool in 1967 and was called to the English Bar in 1968. Moving to Hong Kong in 1978, he served in the Attorney General's Chambers as a Crown Counsel, became a Senior Crown Counsel in 1979 and Deputy Principal Crown Counsel in 1984, was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 1984 and took silk in 1985. As Solicitor General from 1987 to 1991 he dealt with the legal and policy issues of Hong Kong's transition. He joined the Judiciary as a Deputy Judge of the High Court in 1991, became a High Court judge in 1992, a Justice of Appeal in 2000 and served as a Vice President of the Court of Appeal from 2009 to 2014. His judgments, such as in Lam Kwong Wai, Hung Chan Wa and Chan Yu Nam, have been influential in criminal and public law, and he played a pivotal role in establishing the Hong Kong Judicial Institute. A Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal since 2010, he has sat in a number of CFA appeals, including a defamation appeal in 2018, and received the Gold Bauhinia Star in 2014.
