李樹旭

English

Andrew Li Shu-yuk is a judge of the District Court of Hong Kong, born in Hong Kong in 1960. He obtained an LL.B. from the University of the West of England, Bristol, in 1984, completed the Bar Finals Examination of the Council of Legal Education in the United Kingdom in 1985, and obtained an LL.M. in Public Law from the University of Bristol in 2001. He was called to the Bar in the United Kingdom in 1985, in Hong Kong in 1986 and in Singapore in 1994. He was in private practice from 1986 and was appointed a Deputy District Judge in 1997. On 13 November 2012, Li was appointed a District Judge, together with Herbert Au-Yeung Ho-wing, while two appointees became Permanent Magistrates the same day; the appointment was made by the Chief Executive on the recommendation of the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission. He later served as a Deputy Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, sitting on High Court business including judicial review proceedings. The District Court sits between the magistracy and the High Court, hearing both criminal cases and civil claims, and some of its judges are assigned to the Lands Tribunal or other tribunals. Judges of the courts of the HKSAR are appointed by the Chief Executive on the independent recommendation of the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission, under Article 88 of the Basic Law; Article 92 provides that judges are chosen on the basis of their judicial and professional qualities and may be recruited from other common law jurisdictions. Coming from a long career at the Bar and qualified in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore, Li brings both practice and judicial experience to the bench, and his LL.M. in public law is likewise relevant to cases involving public law and judicial review.