Kemal Bokhary

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Syed Kemal Shah Bokhary (包致金法官) (born 1947) is a judge in Hong Kong. He is currently a member of the Court of Final Appeal of the judicial entity.

Born into a middle class Pakistani family in Hong Kong, Bokhary received his early education in King George V School, Hong Kong and his legal education in London.

After being called to the English Bar at Middle Temple in 1970 and to the Hong Kong Bar the following year, Bokhary established a successful legal practice in Hong Kong. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1983 and Justice of the Peace in 1984.

In 1989, he was appointed a Judge of the High Court by Sir David Wilson, then Governor of Hong Kong. He was elevated four year later, in 1993, to the Court of Appeal, where he served till 1997. In 1997, upon the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China, Mr. Justice Bokhary was appointed a Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.