Andrew Colin Macrae (; born 1956) is Vice President of the

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Legal career

In 1979, Macrae was

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and was admitted to

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. He was elected as a Bencher at Middle Temple in 2021. Macrae was

in Hong Kong in 1983. He was in private practice as a member of the Chambers of Gary Plowman SC. He

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in 1999.

Judicial career

Macrae sat as a

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for periods in 2002 and 2003. Macrae was appointed as a

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of the

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of the

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from 2006 to 2010. He was appointed as a full-time Judge of the

of the

on 12 April 2010. He was elevated to the

in 2013 and became Vice President of the Court of Appeal in 2018.

Notable cases

In 2011, Macrae presided over the re-trial of Nancy Kissel for the murder of her husband, Robert Peter Kissel. In 2013, Macrae presided over the criminal trial of

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in relation to the forgery of a will purporting to be the will of

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, who at the time of her death was chair of

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and Asia's richest woman. In 2014, Macrae sat as an additional Judge of the

and presided over the criminal trial of the former

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, and property magnate Thomas Kwok. In 2017, Macrae (sitting with Mr Justice Lunn, VP and Mr Justice Zervos in the

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) heard the application of Rurik Jutting for leave to appeal against his conviction for the

murders of Sumarti Ningsih and Jesse Lorena Sumarti Ningsih was found dead, and Seneng Mujiasih near death, on November 1, 2014, in a luxurious one-bedroom apartment in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Mujiasih, who was pronounced dead shortly after being found, also used the name Jesse Lorena Ruri. ...

. In 2018, Macrae (sitting with Mr Justice Yeung, VP and Mr Justice Pang, JA in the

) heard the application of former

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for leave to appeal against his conviction for

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., reported at 0183 HKLRD 564

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Macrae, Andrew Living people 1959 births Hong Kong judges British Hong Kong judges Hong Kong Senior Counsel Barristers of Hong Kong Alumni of St John's College, Durham zh:麥機智