Johnson Lam

Johnson Lam Man-hon (Chinese: 林文瀚) is a Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.

[4] He continued to serve as Judge in charge of the Constitutional and Administrative Law List until he was appointed as Vice President of the Court of Appeal on 2 September 2013.

On 12 May 2021, it was announced that the Chief Executive had accepted the recommendation of the independent Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission to appoint Lam as a Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal (a post which had become vacant upon the appointment of Andrew Cheung as Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal on 11 January 2021), subject to the endorsement of the Legislative Council in accordance with Article 90 of the Basic Law.

[7][8] Lam was appointed by the Chief Executive as a member of the Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong for 3 years with effect from 1 September 2021.

[9] In May 2023, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) of the United States Congress suggested the United States government imposing sanctions on Lam to counter the erosion of democratic freedoms in Hong Kong over his handling of Jimmy Lai's national security law.