Joseph Paul Fok (Chinese: 霍兆剛, born 24 September 1962) is a Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.
Fok obtained a Bachelor of Laws with honours from University College London in the United Kingdom in 1984.
He was appointed a Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal in 2013, replacing Mr Justice Patrick Chan.
[5] At 51 years and 28 days, he was the third youngest-ever judge to be appointed to the Court of Final Appeal, behind Kemal Bokhary and Andrew Li.
[6] In May 2023, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) of the United States Congress suggested the United States government imposing sanctions on Fok to counter the erosion of democratic freedoms in Hong Kong over his handling of Jimmy Lai's national security law case.