繁體中文
林子勤（Lam Tsz-kan），香港裁判法院裁判官，一九八三年在香港出生。他二○○五年在英國諾定咸大學取得法學士學位，二○○六年在香港大學取得法學專業證書，二○○七年在香港獲大律師資格，並於同年開始私人執業。
二○一七年九月二十八日，林子勤獲委任為常任裁判官。該次任命由行政長官根據司法人員推薦委員會的推薦作出，與他同日履新的還有梁嘉琪、崔美霞、梁少玲、葉啓亮、彭亮廷、鍾明新、陳露怡及王證瑜，九人同屬一批。
裁判法院是香港的初級刑事法院，處理絕大部分刑事案件，包括簡易程序罪行，以及可循公訴程序審理、但會先在裁判法院提訊的案件；裁判官亦負責處理保釋申請、簽發搜查令等程序，並可審理若干小額申索。裁判官日常須處理大量案件，審訊、程序與判刑交錯，工作節奏相當緊湊。此外，淫褻物品審裁處由一名全職裁判官會同兩名或以上來自公眾的審裁委員組成，負責評定物品是否淫褻或不雅，部分裁判官會借調擔任該審裁處的主審裁判官。
林子勤多年來在裁判法院審理各類案件，涵蓋公眾秩序、管有攻擊性武器及一般刑事案件，其中部分判決曾獲傳媒報道。據傳媒報道，他處理的一宗非法集結案件，原審判刑其後由律政司向高等法院申請刑期覆核，經覆核後刑期被上調；刑期覆核屬香港刑事程序中針對判刑的既定機制。他亦曾借調至淫褻物品審裁處出任主審裁判官。林子勤由大律師行列加入司法機構，在裁判法院累積審訊經驗。截至二○二六年，他仍在司法機構的裁判官名單之列。
English
Lam Tsz-kan is a magistrate of the Magistrates' Courts of Hong Kong, born in Hong Kong in 1983. He obtained an LL.B. from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom in 2005 and a Postgraduate Certificate in Laws from the University of Hong Kong in 2006, and was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 2007, beginning private practice the same year.
On 28 September 2017, Lam was appointed a Permanent Magistrate, together with Leung Ka-ki, Tsui Mei-ha, Leung Siu-ling, Ip Kai-leung, Pang Leung-ting, Chung Ming-san, Chan Lo-yee and Wong Ching-yu, nine appointees in all. The appointment was made by the Chief Executive on the recommendation of the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission.
The Magistrates' Courts are Hong Kong's court of first instance for criminal matters, handling the great majority of criminal cases, from summary offences to indictable matters that first come before a magistrate; magistrates also deal with bail applications, the issue of search warrants and certain small claims, and the daily caseload is heavy, with trials, procedural matters and sentencing interlocking. In addition, the Obscene Articles Tribunal consists of a full-time magistrate sitting with two or more lay adjudicators drawn from the public, and determines whether articles are obscene or indecent; some magistrates are seconded to preside over it.
Lam has over the years heard a broad range of cases at the magistracy, including public order offences, possession of offensive weapons and other criminal matters, some of which were reported in the press. According to press reports, in one unlawful assembly case the sentence he imposed was later reviewed by the High Court on the application of the Department of Justice and increased; sentence review is an established mechanism in Hong Kong's criminal procedure. He was also reported to have presided over the Obscene Articles Tribunal. Coming from the Bar, Lam has built up his trial experience in the Magistrates' Courts, and he remained on the Judiciary's list of serving magistrates as at 2026.
