Conversations with the Conscience: Dialogues on Law, Life and Dissent

The Honourable Mr. Justice Kemal Bokhary GBM JP became a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal in 2012.

Mr Justice Bokhary was born in Hong Kong in 1947. He received his legal education in London and became a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple in 1967. He was called to the English Bar in 1970 and the Hong Kong Bar in 1971. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1983.

Mr Justice Bokhary joined the Hong Kong Judiciary as a Judge of the High Court in 1989. He was appointed a Justice of Appeal in 1993. From 1997 to 2012, he served as a Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal. Since retirement as a Permanent Judge, he has published Recollections, The Law is a Crocodile and Crocodile-at-Law, reflecting upon his career in the law.

Mr Justice Bokhary was made an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple in 2001. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa by the University of Hong Kong in 2012. He is also an Honorary Life Member of the Hong Kong Bar Association, and was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal in 2012.

Dr Charles Ho Wang Mak is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol. He holds academic affiliations with the Stanford Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum at Stanford Law School, the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the University of Hong Kong, the Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law at the City University of Hong Kong, and the Sovereign Debt Forum.

He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Glasgow, an LLM in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution from the City University of Hong Kong, an LLM in International Economic Law from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and an LLB with Honours from the University of Sussex.

His research focuses on insolvency law, sovereign debt restructuring, trust law, financial regulation, technology law, and dispute resolution. He is a member of the Trusts and Succession Law Sub Committee and the Competition Law Sub Committee of the Law Society of Scotland.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators, the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution, the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and Advance HE.