Wally Yeung Chun-kuen GBS (Chinese: 楊振權; born 1950) is the Commissioner on Interception of Communications and Surveillance and a retired Hong Kong judge.
[1][3][4] In 2007, Yeung took over as Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry investigating alleged government interference into academic freedom at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, after Mr Justice Woo Kwok-hing had recused himself to avoid the appearance of partiality.
[11] Yeung was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star on 1 July 2021, in recognition of his dedicated and distinguished service in the Judiciary over the preceding 36 years.
Tam had placed a table on the pavement outside her store, and was prosecuted for making an unauthorised "addition" to her premises after having been granted a licence, contrary to Food Business (Urban Council) By-Laws (Cap.
[16] On 17 August 2017, Yeung and two other judges of the Court of Appeal, Derek Pang and Jeremy Poon, sentenced the three main leaders in the 2014 Hong Kong protests, Joshua Wong, Alex Chow, and Nathan Law, to six to eight months in prison in the case of Secretary for Justice v. Wong Chi Fung and others, CAAR 4/2016; the trio had stormed a fenced-off government forecourt known as "Civic Square" which triggered the 79-day Occupy protests.
[19] In 1999, Yeung heard a major judicial review case relating to the right of abode in Hong Kong, Lau Kong-yung & Ors v. Director of Immigration, HCAL 20/1999.