{{short description|Hong Kong judge (born 1960)}} {{family name hatnote|Fung|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable]] Mr Justice | name = Barnabas Fung Wah | native_name = {{nobold|馮驊}} | native_name_lang = zh-hk | image = Barnabus Fung 2019.jpg | caption = Fung in 2019 | honorific_suffix = [[Gold Bauhinia Star|GBS]] | office = Chairman of the [[Electoral Affairs Commission]] | term_start = 17 August 2009 | term_end = 16 August 2022 | predecessor = [[Pang Kin-kee]] | successor = [[David Lok]] | office2 = Judge of the [[Court of First Instance (Hong Kong)|Court of First Instance]] of the [[High Court (Hong Kong)|High Court]] | term_start2 = 2006 | term_end2 = | office3 = [[District Court (Hong Kong)|Chief District Judge]] | term_start3 = 2001 | term_end3 = 2006 | predecessor3 = [[Richard Hawkes (tennis)|Richard Hawkes]] | successor3 = Patrick Li | office4 = [[District Court (Hong Kong)|District Judge]] | term_start4 = 1998 | term_end4 = 2001 | office5 = [[Magistrates' Court (Hong Kong)|Permanent Magistrate]] | term_start5 = 1993 | term_end5 = 1998 | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1960}} | birth_place = [[Hong Kong]] | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = [[University of New South Wales]]<br>[[University of Hong Kong]] }} {{Infobox Chinese |order=ts |t=馮驊 |s=冯骅 |j=fung4 waa4 |p=Féng Huá }} '''Barnabas Fung Wah''', [[Gold Bauhinia Star|GBS]] ({{zh|t=馮驊}}; born 1960) is a Hong Kong [[judge]]. He has served as a [[High Court (Hong Kong)|High Court Judge]] since 2006.
Since 2016, Fung has served as a Panel Judge handling interception and surveillance authorisation requests from law enforcement agencies.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201610/28/P2016102800214.htm |title=Government announces appointment of Panel Judge under Interception of Communications and Surveillance Ordinance |publisher=[[Government of Hong Kong]] |date=28 October 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201911/01/P2019110100321.htm |title=Re-appointment of Panel Judge under Interception of Communications and Surveillance Ordinance |publisher=[[Government of Hong Kong]] |date=1 November 2019}}</ref>
He was Chairman of the [[Electoral Affairs Commission]] from 2009 to 2022.
He previously served as Chairman and Director of the [[Hong Kong Children's Choir]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.law.unsw.edu.au/hon-justice-barnabas-fung |title=The Hon Justice Barnabas Fung |publisher=[[University of New South Wales]]}}</ref>
==Education and legal career== Fung was educated at [[Wah Yan College, Hong Kong]] and [[Barker College]], [[Australia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.judiciary.hk/doc/en/publications/2001/chapter8.pdf |title=Hong Kong Judiciary Annual Report 2001 |publisher=[[Judiciary of Hong Kong]] |page=104}}</ref> He graduated from the [[University of New South Wales]] with a [[BComm]] and [[LLB]] in 1984 and 1985 respectively. He obtained his [[Postgraduate Certificate in Laws|PCLL]] from the [[University of Hong Kong]] in 1986.<ref name="2006news">{{cite web |url=https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200611/24/P200611240201.htm |title=Judicial appointments |publisher=[[Government of Hong Kong]] |date=24 November 2006}}</ref>
Fung was [[Call to the bar|called]] to the New South Wales Bar and Hong Kong Bar in 1985 and 1986 respectively. He was a [[barrister]] in private practice in Hong Kong from 1987 to 1993.<ref name="2006news"/>
==Judicial career== In 1993, Fung joined the bench as a [[Magistrates' Court (Hong Kong)|Permanent Magistrate]]. He became a [[District Court (Hong Kong)|District Judge]] in 1998 and was subsequently appointed as Chief District Judge in 2001.<ref name="2006news"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200104/27/0427192.htm |title=Judicial Appointment |publisher=[[Government of Hong Kong]] |date=27 April 2001}}</ref>
Fung sat as a [[High Court (Hong Kong)#Part-time Deputy Judges|Deputy High Court Judge]] intermittently from December 2001 to July 2006.<ref>[https://www.gld.gov.hk/egazette/pdf/20010548/egn200105487321.pdf "G.N. 7321"], [[Hong Kong Government Gazette]] (No. 48, Vol. 5, 30 November 2001)</ref><ref>[https://www.gld.gov.hk/egazette/pdf/20020617/egn200206172380.pdf "G.N. 2380"], [[Hong Kong Government Gazette]] (No. 17, Vol. 6, 26 April 2002)</ref><ref>[https://www.gld.gov.hk/egazette/pdf/20040853/egn200408538261.pdf "G.N. 8261"], [[Hong Kong Government Gazette]] (No. 53, Vol. 8, 31 December 2004)</ref><ref>[https://www.gld.gov.hk/egazette/pdf/20050913/egn200509131440.pdf "G.N. 1440"], [[Hong Kong Government Gazette]] (No. 13, Vol. 9, 1 April 2005)</ref><ref>[https://www.gld.gov.hk/egazette/pdf/20050948/egn200509486214.pdf "G.N. 6214"], [[Hong Kong Government Gazette]] (No. 48, Vol. 9, 2 December 2005)</ref><ref>[https://www.gld.gov.hk/egazette/pdf/20061024/egn200610243655.pdf "G.N. 3655"], [[Hong Kong Government Gazette]] (No. 23, Vol. 10, 9 June 2006)</ref>
In November 2006, Fung was appointed as a Judge of the [[Court of First Instance (Hong Kong)|Court of First Instance]] of the [[High Court (Hong Kong)|High Court]].<ref name="2006news"/> He was the Judge in charge of the Personal Injury List from 2008 to 2010.
Fung acted as [[Returning Officer]] for the [[2007 Hong Kong Chief Executive election]].<ref>[https://www.gld.gov.hk/egazette/pdf/20071106/egn20071106967.pdf "G.N. 967"], [[Hong Kong Government Gazette]] (No. 6, Vol. 11, 9 February 2007)</ref>
In 2009, Fung was appointed as Chairman of the [[Electoral Affairs Commission]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200907/27/P200907270177.htm |title=Appointments to the Electoral Affairs Commission |publisher=[[Government of Hong Kong]] |date=27 July 2009}}</ref> He was re-appointed in 2013 and 2017 (for a term of 5 years until 2022).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201306/21/P201306210231.htm |title=Re-appointment of Chairman of Electoral Affairs Commission |publisher=[[Government of Hong Kong]] |date=21 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201706/14/P2017061400657.htm |title=Re-appointment of Chairman of Electoral Affairs Commission |publisher=[[Government of Hong Kong]] |date=14 June 2017}}</ref> On 16 August 2022, it was announced that Fung's chairmanship of the EAC expired that day and the Government was actively identifying his successor, whose appointment would be announced in due course.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202208/16/P2022081600417.htm |title=Expiry of chairmanship for Electoral Affairs Commission |publisher=[[Government of Hong Kong]] |date=16 August 2022}}</ref>
Fung has sat in the [[Court of Appeal (Hong Kong)|Court of Appeal]] in a number of civil and criminal appeal cases.<ref>For example, {{Cite Hong Kong case|litigants=王子鑫 v 香港警務處長鄧竟成|list=CACV|number=354|year=2007|id=61463}}, reported in [2008] 5 HKLRD 164, {{Cite Hong Kong case|litigants=香港特別行政區 訴 吳岳威|list=CACC|number=141|year=2007|id=59383}}, reported in [2008] 1 HKLRD 546, and {{Cite Hong Kong case|litigants=HKSAR v Wong Po Lam|list=CACC|number=163|year=2007|id=60876}}</ref>
== Awards == * 2017 [[Gold Bauhinia Star]] (in recognition of his distinguished service as the Chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission)<ref>[https://www.gld.gov.hk/egazette/pdf/20172136e/egn2017213643.pdf "G.N.(E.) 43"] [[Hong Kong Government Gazette]] (No. 36, Vol. 21 (Extraordinary), 30 June 2017)</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://gia.info.gov.hk/general/201706/30/P2017062900879_262114_1_1498740755626.pdf |title=Appendix: The citations of the award recipients of the 2017 Honours List |publisher=[[Government of Hong Kong]] |date=30 June 2017}}</ref>
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