Michael Victor Lunn, GBS, KC, SC (; born 1950) is a senior

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. He is Chairman of the

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and the Securities and Futures Appeals Tribunal in

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Early life

Lunn was born in

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(now

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) and was educated in

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. In 1968, he won a Richardson Foundation Scholarship to

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in the

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. He graduated from

Queens' College, Cambridge Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Queens' is one of the oldest colleges of the university, founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. The college spans the River Cam, colloquially referred to as the "light s ...

with a BA in

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in 1972.

Legal career

In 1973, Lunn was

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and was admitted to

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. He was a

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in private practice in England from 1974 to 1977. He moved to

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in 1977 and worked in the Attorney-General's Chambers until 1981. From 1982 to 2003, he was in private practice as a member of the Chambers of

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, SC. Lunn

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in 1994. He was Vice Chairman of the

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from 2001 to 2003.

Judicial career

Lunn was appointed as a

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of the

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of the

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in 2000. He was appointed as a full-time Judge of the

of the

in 2003. He was elevated to the

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in 2011 and became Vice President of the Court of Appeal in 2014. Lunn was Chairman of the

from 2005 to 2012. In 2012, Lunn was appointed as Chairman of the Inquiry into the

2012 Lamma Island ferry collision On 1 October 2012, at approximately 20:23 HKT, the passenger ferries ''Sea Smooth'' and ''Lamma IV'' collided off Yung Shue Wan, Lamma Island, Hong Kong. This occurred on the National Day of the People's Republic of China, and one of the ships ...

. After the 2018 Hong Kong bus accident, Lunn was appointed as Chairman of the Independent Review Committee on Hong Kong's Franchised Bus Service. Lunn retired from the

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in 2018. On 1 July 2018, he was awarded the

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by the

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in recognition of his dedicated and distinguished service in the Judiciary for 15 years. Since October 2018, Lunn has been sitting as a Justice of Appeal of the

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. Lunn sat as a Deputy Judge of the

in 2019 and 2020. In 2019, Lunn was re-appointed as Chairman of the

and the Securities and Futures Appeals Tribunal for a 3-year term until 2021. In 2021, Lunn's term was extended for 3 years until 2024."G.N. 4558"

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(No. 30, Vol. 25, 30 July 2021)

References

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