杜浩成

English

Joseph To Ho-shing, born in Hong Kong in 1962, is a barrister now practising from Beacons Chambers in Admiralty and a former permanent magistrate. He took a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Laws at the University of New South Wales in 1989, was admitted as a solicitor in the High Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of New South Wales the same year, as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1992, and was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 2000. Between 1990 and 1993 he was a legal aid counsel in the Legal Aid Department, practised privately from 1993 to 1994, served as a prosecutor and then a senior prosecutor in the former Legal Department from 1994 to 1997, and from 1997 was a senior government counsel in the Department of Justice. On 28 July 2006 the Judiciary announced the appointment of eight permanent magistrates, To among them, with effect from 1 August 2006. The Government release set out the education and working career of each appointee, including his professional qualifications in Australia, England and Hong Kong. The Bar Association's current record lists him at Beacons Chambers with 2000 as his year of call and notes that he speaks Putonghua. That record does not give the date he left the judiciary, and the Government announcement gave only the date the appointment took effect rather than its length, so this entry does not infer how long he served as a magistrate.