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Prosecutions Division (Hong Kong)

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Former Crown Prosecutors
Directors of Public Prosecutions
References
External links

The Prosecutions Division (刑事檢控科) of the Department of Justice, is the public prosecution office in Hong Kong. The Prosecutions Division is the largest in the Department, with about 125 lawyers, known as 'Public Prosecutors', and about 115 lay prosecutors, known as 'Court Prosecutors'. The role of the Division is to prosecute trials and appeals on behalf of Hong Kong, to provide legal advice to law enforcement agencies upon their investigations, and generally to exercise on behalf of the Secretary for Justice the discretion of whether or not to bring criminal proceedings in Hong Kong. In addition, counsel in the Division provide advice and assistance to Government bureaux and departments in relation to any criminal law aspects of proposed legislation.

The Director of Public Prosecutions ("DPP") heads the Division as a Law Officer of the Department of Justice. The current Director of Public Prosecutions is Mr Keith Yeung, SC.

The DPP is responsible for directing the conduct of trials and appeals on behalf of Hong Kong, providing legal advice to law enforcement agencies (such as Hong Kong Police, Custom and ICAC), exercising the discretion of whether to institute criminal proceedings, and providing advice to others in government on proposed changes to the criminal law.

The lawyers of the Prosecution Division in the former British Hong Kong colonial administration were, before 1997, titled "Crown Counsel"(檢察官). After the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong, they were renamed "Government Counsel" (政府律師). In 2007, to highlight their constitutional independence, lawyers working in the Prosecutions Division adopted the alternative title of "Public Prosecutor" (檢控官).

Former Crown Prosecutors

David Boy, QC (1979-1982)
Max Lucas, QC (1982-1984)
Joseph Duffy, QC (1984-1986)
James Findlay, QC (1986-1989)
Anthony Duckett, QC (Acting, 1989-1990)
John Wood, CB, JP (1990-1994)
Peter Nguyen, QC, SC (1994-1997)

Directors of Public Prosecutions


No.	Name	Took office	Left office	Tenure length	Higher Education	Further Judicial Appointments
1	Peter Van Tu Nguyen, SBS, QC, SC	1 July 1997	14 October 1997	1997\|7\|1\|1997\|10\|14}}	None	Judge of the Court of First Instance (1997-2008)
2	Ian Grenville Cross, SBS, JP, QC, SC	15 October 1997	21 October 2009	1997\|10\|15\|2009\|10\|21}}	University of Southampton (LLB)
3	Ian Charles McWalters, SC	22 October 2009	9 February 2011	2009\|10\|22\|2011\|02\|09}}	University of Sydney (BA, LLB)	Judge of the Court of First Instance (2011-2014) Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal (2014-)
4	Kevin Paul Zervos, SC	25 March 2011	8 September 2013	2011\|03\|25\|2013\|09\|08}}	Monash University (BS, LLB)	Judge of the Court of First Instance (2013-2018) Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal (2018-)
5	Keith Yeung Kar-hung, SC	9 September 2013	8 September 2017	2013\|09\|09\|2017\|09\|08}}	University of Hong Kong (LLB, PCLL)	Deputy Judge of the Court of First Instance (2018-)
6	David Leung Cheuk-yin, SC	29 December 2017	In Office	{{age in years and days>2017\|12\|29\|}}	University of Hong Kong (LLB, LLM)

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20071027071153/http://www.doj.gov.hk/eng/about/pd.htm Organisation chart of the Prosecutions Division]

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