Woo Kwok-hing took up his present post of Commissioner on Interception of Communications and Surveillance in August 2006, soon after the enactment came into force, doubling as vice-president of the Court of Appeal. Having reached 65, he retired from the Judiciary in January this year and is now on pre-retirement leave. Between 1993 and 2006, he was chairman of Electoral Affairs Commission, with responsibility for running and supervising elections in Hong Kong. He had led a number of independent inquiries, including the inquiry into the Garley Building inferno in 1996 and the chaotic opening of the new airport in 1998.

(HK Edition 07/29/2011 page4)