Supreme Court of Hong Kong

It heard cases of first instance and appeals from the District and Magisrates Courts as well as certain tribunals.

The Supreme Court was established in 1844 after Hong Kong became a British Crown colony under the Treaty of Nanjing.

The first sitting of the court was on 1 October 1844 presided over by the first Chief Justice, John Walter Hulme.

In the 1910s and 1920s, a Shanghai judge would regularly travel to Hong Kong to sit on the Full Court.

[6] A full history of the Supreme Court up to the early 20th Century is in James William Norton-Kyshe's:

The "old Supreme Court Building" facing Statue Square in 1915.
Former French Mission Building, used by the Supreme Court from 1980 to 1983 and later by the Court of Final Appeal from 1997 to 2015.
Entrance of the High Court in Admiralty .