Judicial Appointment

The following is issued on behalf of the Judiciary: The Judiciary today (September 4) announced the appointment of the Honourable Mr Justice Russell Adam Coleman, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, as a Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court. The appointment will take effect from September 7, 2026. The appointment is made by the Chief Executive on the recommendation of the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission. The biographical note of the Honourable Mr Justice Coleman is as follows: Mr Justice Coleman was born in 1963 in the United Kingdom. He obtained LL.B. from the University of Wales, United Kingdom, in 1985 and completed the Bar Finals Examination of the Inns of Court School of Law in London, United Kingdom, in 1986. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1986 and to the Hong Kong Bar in 1991. He was appointed as Senior Counsel in 2006. He was in private practice from 1986 to 2019. He sat as Deputy Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court for periods in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and was appointed as Recorder of the Court of First Instance of the High Court from March 2013 to February 2019. He was appointed as Jud