Secretary for Justice

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Secretary for Justice (Traditional Chinese: 律政司司長) is a member of the Hong Kong Government responsible for prosecutions and legal matters. The Secretary for Justice heads the Department of Justice. The Secretary for Justice is the third in line, after the Chief Secretary and the Financial Secretary, to act for the Chief Executive when the Chief Executive is on leave or is outside of Hong Kong, and to assume the duty of the office of the Chief Executive when the position is temporarily vacant.

Before the transfer of sovereignty, the position was titled Attorney General (律政司), and the department was called Legal Department.

[edit] List of Secretaries for Justice

• Elsie Leung (July 1, 1997 - October 20, 2005)
• Wong Yan Lung (October 20, 2005 - )

[edit] List of Attorneys General before 1997

Before 1997, the Department of Justice was known as the Legal Department. It was headed by the Attorney General:

• Edward Louchlin O'Malley (1884-1889)
• W. Meigh Goodman (1890-1902)
• Sir Henry Spencer Berkeley (1902-1906)
• Rees Davies (1907-1912)
• J. A. S. Bucknill (1912-1914)
• Sir Joseph H. Kemp (1914-1930)
• C. G. Alabaster (1930-1941)
• G. E. Strickland (acting) (1946)
• John Bowes Griffin (1947-1951)
• Arthur Ridehalgh (1952-1961)
• Maurice Heenan (1962-1966)
• Denys Tudor Emil Roberts (1966-1973)
• John Williams Dixon Hobley (1973-1979)
• John Calvert Griffiths (1979-1983)
• Michael David Thomas (1983-1988)
• Jeremy Fell Mathews (1988 - June 30, 1997)

[edit] Principal officials of Hong Kong

Secretaries of departments: Chief Secretary | Financial Secretary | Secretary for Justice

Secretaries of bureaux: Civil Service | Commerce, Industry and Technology | Constitutional Affairs | Economic Development and Labour | Education and Manpower | Environment, Transport and Works | Financial Services and the Treasury | Health, Welfare and Food | Home Affairs | Housing, Planning and Lands | Security

Other principal officials: Audit | Police | ICAC | Customs and Excise | Immigration

Past secretaries of bureaux (after 1997): Broadcasting, Culture and Sport Bureau | Commerce and Industry | Economic Services | Environment and Food | Health and Welfare | Housing | Information Technology and Broadcasting | Planning and Lands | Trade and Industry | Transport | Treasury | Works