法官及司法人員 / Judge / judicial officer
法官及司法人員
周家明
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(2021年起)
繁體中文
周家明(Anderson Chow Ka-ming),1964年生於香港。1986年及1987年,他在香港大學分別取得法學士學位及法學專業證書;1987年在香港取得大律師資格,1995年在新加坡最高法院取得訟辯人及律師資格,執業範圍跨越香港與新加坡。他於2004年獲委任為資深大律師,1988年至2014年間私人執業,長期處理公司、合約及商業糾紛。2010年至2014年,他出任高等法院原訟法庭特委法官,2014年獲委任為原訟法庭法官,2021年6月9日升任高等法院上訴法庭法官。2019年,他在原訟法庭審理郭卓堅就新界小型屋宇政策(丁屋政策)提出的司法覆核(Kwok Cheuk Kin v Director of Lands,[2019] HKCFI 867),裁定以私人協約及換地方式興建丁屋的安排不屬《基本法》第四十條下的合法傳統權益,私人土地上的免費建屋牌照則屬合憲。同年11月,他與原訟法庭法官林雲浩一同審理《禁止蒙面規例》的司法覆核。2020年,他在一宗司法覆核中裁定《無遺囑者遺產條例》及《財產繼承(供養遺屬及受養人)條例》在同性配偶的適用上違憲。他是《香港國安法》指定的法官之一,2020年8月曾與法官李運騰一同處理首名被控違反《國安法》的被告唐英傑就人身保護令及保釋所提出的申請,最終拒絕其人身保護令申請;該案是《香港國安法》實施後首宗在高等法院處理的同類申請。他亦處理商事、破產及司法覆核案件,其商法背景為審判工作提供紮實基礎。
English
Anderson Chow Ka-ming was born in Hong Kong in 1964. He obtained an LLB and the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws from the University of Hong Kong in 1986 and 1987, was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 1987 and was admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1995. Appointed Senior Counsel in 2004, he practised privately from 1988 to 2014, dealing with company, contract and commercial disputes, and served as a Recorder of the Court of First Instance from 2010 to 2014. A Judge of the Court of First Instance from 2014, he became a Justice of Appeal of the High Court on 9 June 2021. A designated judge under the Hong Kong National Security Law, he sat with Mr Justice Lee Wan-tang in August 2020 on the habeas corpus and bail applications of Tong Ying-kit, the first person charged under the Law, and refused the habeas corpus application - the first such application to be dealt with in the High Court after the Law came into force. He has also handled commercial, insolvency and judicial review cases.