政府官員 / Government official

李柱銘

大字係領域(由已登記職業/領域派生),唔係姓氏。

Martin Lee Chu-ming

1985年–2008年

領域:政治人物

繁體中文

李柱銘(Martin Lee Chu-ming),1938年6月8日出生,祖籍廣東惠州,在香港土生土長,父親李彥和曾任國民黨軍隊中將。他是香港大律師及民主派政治人物,畢業於英國林肯律師學院,也是香港現時資歷最深的資深大律師之一。他早年就讀九龍華仁書院,1960年畢業於香港大學,主修英國文學及哲學,得恩師余叔韶大律師資助;其後任教三年,再赴英國林肯律師學院進修法律,1966年取得大律師資格回港執業。他1979年獲委任為御用大律師,1980年至1983年出任香港大律師公會主席。1985年,他首次當選立法局議員,代表法律界功能界別,此後多次連任,直至2008年退休。1980年代,他獲委任為《基本法》起草委員會委員,1989年與其他民主派草委一同退出。1990年,他與司徒華等人創立香港民主同盟(港同盟),這是香港首個政黨;1991年,港同盟在立法局首次直選中取得佳績。1994年,港同盟與匯點合併為民主黨,他出任創黨主席,至2002年卸任。香港特區成立後,他繼續在立法會循地區直選議席當選,並長期擔任法律界與民主派的代表人物;2003年他大力反對《基本法》二十三條立法,其後亦多次就政改方案提出意見,2008年立法會選舉後宣布不再參選。他在議會內反對新聞審查,並爭取全面民主選舉與人權保障,獲多項國際人權獎項,包括1995年美國大律師公會國際人權獎、1996年自由國際自由獎及1997年美國國家民主基金會民主獎。

English

Martin Lee Chu-ming was born on 8 June 1938, with his ancestral home in Huizhou, Guangdong, and was raised in Hong Kong; his father, Li Yan-he, was a lieutenant general in the Kuomintang army. He is a Hong Kong barrister and pro-democracy politician, a graduate of Lincoln's Inn in England, and one of the territory's longest-serving Senior Counsel. He attended Wah Yan College, Kowloon, graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1960 in English literature and philosophy, was supported through his studies by his mentor, the barrister Yu Shuk-siu, taught for three years, then went to Lincoln's Inn to read law, being called to the Bar and returning to practise in 1966. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1979 and chaired the Hong Kong Bar Association from 1980 to 1983. First elected to the Legislative Council in 1985 for the legal functional constituency, he was returned in every election until his retirement in 2008. In the 1980s he was appointed to the Basic Law Drafting Committee, resigning with other pro-democracy members in 1989. In 1990 he and Szeto Wah founded the United Democrats of Hong Kong, the territory's first political party, which did well in the first direct elections to the Legislative Council in 1991. In 1994 the United Democrats merged with Meeting Point to form the Democratic Party, of which he was the founding chairman until 2002. In the legislature he opposed press censorship and campaigned for fully elected government and human rights, receiving international human rights awards including the American Bar Association's International Human Rights Award in 1995, Liberal International's Prize for Freedom in 1996 and the National Endowment for Democracy's Democracy Award in 1997.

人物小檔 Profile

職業Occupation

資深大律師、民主黨創黨主席

年期Active period

1985年–2008年

代表作Notable works

香港民主黨創黨主席、1991年港同盟贏得立法局首次直選

獎項及榮譽Awards & honours

1995年美國大律師公會國際人權獎、1996年自由國際自由獎、1997年美國國家民主基金會民主獎

資料整理日期 / Compiled: 2026-09-12

主要成就 Key Achievements

1979

獲委任為御用大律師。

Was appointed Queen's Counsel.

1985

首次當選立法局議員,代表法律界功能界別。

Was first elected to the Legislative Council, representing the legal functional constituency.

1994

出任香港民主黨首任主席,至2002年。

Became the first chairman of the Democratic Party, serving until 2002.

影響與傳承 Impact & Legacy

繁體中文

李柱銘把法律專業與政治實踐結合,是香港民主運動的代表人物。他創立港同盟並出任民主黨首任主席,又在立法局爭取全面直選。他的國際人權獎項,使他成為國際社會認識香港民主訴求的重要人物。

English

Martin Lee combined legal practice with politics and became a leading figure of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement. He founded the United Democrats and served as the first chairman of the Democratic Party, pressing in the legislature for fully elected government, and his international human rights awards made him a figure through whom the wider world came to know Hong Kong's democratic aspirations.

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