Gerald Arthur de Basto, QC (31 December 1924 – 28 January 2017) was a Hong Kong judge, barrister and author.
Gerald Arthur de Basto was born in December 1924 to Bernard de Basto and Lucie Marie Pattard.
[1] Together with Oswald Cheung, Charles Ching and Ronald Arculli, de Basto founded Sir Oswald Cheung’s Chambers in 1965.
[2][3] He was also chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association from 1968 and 1970 and again in 1973.
He died in January 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa at the age of 92.