張潔宜

English

Cheung Kit-yee (born 1971 in Hong Kong) is a District Judge. She obtained an LL.B. and a Postgraduate Certificate in Laws from the City University of Hong Kong in 1994 and 1995 respectively, and was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 1995. She joined the Department of Justice as Government Counsel in 1997 and was promoted to Senior Government Counsel in 2007. She was appointed a Permanent Magistrate on 13 November 2012, later serving as an acting Principal Magistrate, and on 14 April 2022 she was appointed a District Judge on the recommendation of the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission. Judge Cheung's experience covers criminal prosecution and adjudication in the magistracy. She specialised in prosecution work as Government Counsel and Senior Government Counsel, then handled a large volume of criminal cases in the magistracy, at times acting as a Principal Magistrate and presiding over cases concerning damage to MTR station facilities during the 2019 events. After her appointment as a District Judge in 2022 she has heard criminal and civil cases and has also sat as a Deputy High Court Judge hearing appeals. The magistracy handles the great majority of criminal cases in Hong Kong and is the first tier of the criminal justice system, while in the District Court civil claims generally range from HK$75,000 to HK$3 million and the maximum sentence is seven years' imprisonment.