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Rimsky Yuen

The Honourable
Rimsky Yuen
袁國強
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Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong
Assumed office
1 July 2012
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying
Preceded by Wong Yan-lung
Member of the Guangdong committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
In office
March 2008 – March 2012
Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association
In office
2007–2010
Preceded by Philip Dykes SC
Succeeded by Russell Coleman SC
Personal details
Born Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung
1964 (1964) (age 53)
Alma mater University of Hong Kong
City University of Hong Kong
Rimsky Yuen
Traditional Chinese 袁國強
Simplified Chinese 袁国强

Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung (born 1964) is a lawyer and the third and current Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong. He took office on 1 July 2012.

Yuen studied law as an undergraduate at the University of Hong Kong and as a master's student at the City University of Hong Kong. He was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 1987. In 1995, he became qualified as a solicitor and advocate in Singapore. He held a temporary position as deputy registrar of the High Court of Hong Kong from 2002 to 2003; afterwards, he was appointed as a Senior Counsel. He later became chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association.

In 2008, Yuen accepted a position as a member of the Guangdong committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in a widely criticised decision; a number of legislators in the pan-democratic camp, including Democratic Party chairman Albert Ho and Civic Party member Audrey Eu, called on Yuen to step down. Ronny Tong, who had declined a similar offer of appointment to the Guangdong CPPCC during his tenure as Bar Association head, also expressed his disappointment in Yuen and expressed his concerns over the potential for conflict of interest. In contrast, legislator Kwong Chi-kin of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions supported Yuen's appointment, stating that it would promote cooperation with mainland authorities; pro-Beijing newspaper Wen Wei Po also came out with an editorial denying that any conflict of interest arose by Yuen's appointment.


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