Ronny Tong Ka-wah KC SC (Chinese: 湯家驊; born 28 August 1950) is a senior counsel and politician in Hong Kong.

[2] Eight days after his election as Bar chairman on 21 January 1999, the Court of Final Appeal ruled that mainland Chinese children born before their parents became Hong Kong permanent residents were entitled to right of abode in the city.

In June 1999, the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) made an interpretation of the Basic Law that effectively overruled the city's top court in the case.

[3] Tong also targeted then Secretary for Justice Elsie Leung Oi-sie's handling of the Sally Aw Sian case, in which the publishing tycoon was not prosecuted for a fraud plot involving her company although she was named as a conspirator in the charges.

He entered the spotlight as a legal expert when half a million Hong Kong people took to the streets in 2003 to protest against the proposed Article 23 anti-subversion bill that was later shelved.

Tong combined with the other pro-democrats with a joint list in the New Territories East, where he was placed behind the Democratic Party's Andrew Cheng Kar-foo and The Frontier's Emily Lau Wai-hing.

[6] Tong also advocated repealing an existing law which disallows the Chief Executive belonging to a political party membership.

[6] On 31 August 2014, when Beijing announced its decision constraining Hong Kong's political reform, which would spark the 2014 Hong Kong protests, Tong was immediately critical, vowing to vote against it, which cast severe doubt on the government's ability to win the two-thirds majority a reform package needed in the Legislative Council.

A moderate reform plan he drew up – under which the public would not be allowed to nominate chief executive candidates – received a cool response from his allies.

[12] In April 2021, after the government moved to ban calls to boycott elections, Tong said that it was "politically and ethically" the right thing to do and that people should "stop making a fuss about it".

[16] On 5 October 2022, legislative council member Doreen Kong criticized the government and Lo Chung-mau for invalidating 20,000 COVID-19 vaccine exemption passes, stating that he had no legal authority to do so, with Koon asking "Who is destroying the rule of law now?

[20] Tong then said of the new legal power that "It is the most appropriate method to protect public health and prevent people from taking advantage of the loopholes of legislation for seeking their own profits.

"[23] In August 2022, Tong said that the retreat of foreign investors away from Hong Kong was not caused by the 2019 protests or the government's COVID-19 response, but instead other fundamental problems such as lack of development in sports.

[28] In December 2022, Tong backtracked and said that the Hong Kong government does not need the NPCSC interpretation to handle the issue, saying it would be overkill.

[29] After the NPCSC ruled that the Chief Executive could ban foreign lawyers, Tong said it was not a major issue as there were only a "miniscule" amount of cases which would be affected.