Patrick Yu Shuk Siu (Chinese: 余叔韶; August 22, 1922 – January 12, 2019) was a celebrated trial and appellate lawyer in Hong Kong.

In 1938, at the age of sixteen, he was admitted to the University of Hong Kong,[3] where he studied in the arts program as a Government Scholar.

Within a 10-month period, he familiarised himself with all the "niceties" of the English common law, studying in the Bar Library at Lincoln's Inn.

[citation needed] He soon went back to Hong Kong, and in 1951 became the first Chinese person to be appointed Crown Counsel of that British colony.

Yu was also known for his refusal to apply to become Queen's Counsel,[1] a mark of distinction envied by many practitioners in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and in many other Commonwealth countries.