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Appointment of Vice-President of the Court of Appeal
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The following is issued on behalf of the Judiciary:
 
     The Judiciary today (April 20) announced the appointment of the Honourable Mr Justice Andrew Colin Macrae, Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court, as Vice-President of the Court of Appeal of the High Court with effect from April 23, 2018.
      
     The biographical note of the Honourable Mr Justice Macrae is as follows:
      
     The Honourable Mr Justice Macrae was born in 1956 in the United Kingdom. He obtained B.A. (Hons) from Durham University, the United Kingdom, in 1978 and passed the Bar Examination of the Inns of Court School of Law in London in 1979, in which year he was also awarded the Winston Churchill Scholarship by the Middle Temple. He was called to the Bar in England and Wales, in Hong Kong and in Brunei in 1979, 1983 and 2004 respectively. He was appointed as Senior Counsel in 1999. After serving in the then Attorney-General's Chambers in Hong Kong from 1982 to 1983, he was in private practice between 1983 and 2010. He served as Deputy Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court for periods in 2002 and 2003. He was appointed as Recorder of the Court of First Instance of the High Court from 2006 to 2010. In 2010, he joined the Judiciary as Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court. He was appointed as Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court in 2013.
 
Ends/Friday, April 20, 2018
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