Keith Yeung

Keith Yeung Kah-hung SC (Chinese: 楊家雄) is a Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong, and was previously the 5th Director of Public Prosecutions of Hong Kong.

The Honourable Mr Justice Keith Yeung Kah-hung SC
楊家雄
Judge of the Court of First Instance
Incumbent
Assumed office 2019
Director of Public Prosecutions
In office 9 September 2013 – 8 September 2017
Preceded by	Kevin Zervos
Succeeded by	David Leung
Personal details
Born	1964 (age 56–57) Hong Kong
Alma mater	University of Hong Kong

Keith Yeung Kah-hung
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	楊家雄
Simplified Chinese	杨家雄
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yáng Jiāxióng Wade–Giles Yang Chia-Hsiung Yue: Cantonese Jyutping joeng4 gaa1 hung4
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese	Duong Gia-Hung

Legal career

Keith Yeung - Dương Gia-hùng received an LLB in 1986 and a PCLL in 1987 from the University of Hong Kong.[1]

Yeung was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 1987 and was a barrister in private practice between 1988 and 2013. He was a member of Plowman Chambers.[2] He took silk in 2009.[1]

On 1 August 2013, Yeung was appointed as the Director of Public Prosecutions of Hong Kong.[3] He was the first ethnic Chinese to take up this post.[4]

Judicial career

Yeung sat as a Deputy Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong for periods in 2013, 2018 and 2019.[1]

On 29 July 2019, Yeung was appointed a Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong.[1][5]

References

1. "Judicial appointment". Info.gov.hk. Government of Hong Kong. 26 July 2019.
2. "Plowman Chambers". Archived from the original on 7 March 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
3. "Appointment of Director of Public Prosecutions". Info.gov.hk. Government of Hong Kong. 1 August 2013.
4. "Barrister Keith Yeung to be first Hong Kong Chinese chief prosecutor". South China Morning Post. 2 August 2013.
5. "Keith Yeung appointed High Court judge". The Standard. 2 July 2019.