- Member of HKPM Board
Mr Robert Tang alias Robert TANG Kwok-ching is married with two children. He received his legal education in England and obtained a LLB from the Birmingham University in 1969. He was called to the English Bar at Gray’s Inn in 1969 and to the Hong Kong Bar in 1970. He was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 1986 and became a Senior Counsel in 1997. He was appointed as a Judge of the Court of First Instance in April 2004, a Justice of Appeal in January 2005, a Vice President of the Court of Appeal in November 2006 and a Non-Permanent Hong Kong Judge of the Court of Final Appeal in September 2010.
Mr Tang was a Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal from October 2012 until his retirement on 24 October 2018. He was appointed as a Non-Permanent Hong Kong Judge of the Court of Final Appeal on 25 October 2018.
Whilst in private practice, Mr Tang was at various times, the Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, the Criminal and Law Enforcement Injuries Compensation Boards, the Independent Police Complaints Council, the Town Planning Appeal Board, the Takeovers and Mergers Panel, and the Securities and Futures Appeal Panel. He was also at various times, a member of the Judicial Service Commission, the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission, the Appeal Board on Public Meetings and Processions, the ICAC Complaints Committee and the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and a non-Executive Director of the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority.
Mr Tang is the Chairman of the Standing Commission on Legal Education and Training, a trustee of the S.K. Yee Medical Foundation, a member of the International Advisory Board as well as a Council member of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. He is also on the Panel of Arbitrators of CIETAC, a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in England and also a CEDR accredited mediator.
Mr Tang is a collector. He is a member of the Min Chiu Society and was its Chairman between 2007 and 2009. The Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong has in 2015 held an Exhibition on his jade collections in the name of “Restrained Lustre: Chinese Jades from the Cissy and Robert Tang Collection”, and published a Catalogue of the collection under the same name. Part of Robert and Cissy Tang’s collection has been on long term loan to the Denver Art Museum, the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
