HONG KONG: Two judges for the High Court and the District Court have been appointed by the Chief Executive. The appointments will be effective from February 1.

Mohan Tarachand Bharwaney, aged 54 and appointed as Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, obtained his LL.B. (Hons) at the University of Hong Kong in 1976 and took the Bar Final Examinations at the Inns of Court School of Law.

Bharwaney was admitted to the Hong Kong Bar in 1978 and the Australian Bar in 1991, specializing mainly in personal injuries. He is member of the Barristers Disciplinary Tribunal Panel and chairman of the Buildings Appeal Tribunal Panel, and was appointed Senior Counsel in 2008.

Another Judge, Anthea Pang Po-kam, born in Hong Kong in 1962, is appointed as District Judge. Pang, who received a Bachelor of Social Science in 1985 and then obtained her P.C.LL. and LL.M. in 1994 and 2001 from the University of Hong Kong, was admitted to the Bar in the city in 1994.

Pang served in the government from 1995 in the Legal Department as Crown Counsel, before her promotion to Senior Government Counsel in 1998. She was appointed as Deputy Principal Government Counsel in 2007.

(HK Edition 01/27/2010 page1)