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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]} He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1983.^[1] The following year, he became a Justice of the Peace.^{[citation needed]} In 1989, he was appointed a Judge of the High Court by Sir David Wilson, then Governor of Hong Kong. He was to the Court of Appeal in 1993.^[1] 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.^{[citation needed]}

Kemal is married to High Court judge Verina Bokhary, with whom he has three daughters.^[1] His father Daoud Bokhary, who also lives in the territory, came to the city with the British army after the liberation of Hong Kong from Japanese occupation and achieved success as a wharf owner and stock broker.^[2]

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