Carlye Chu

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Carlye Chu Fun-ling, born in 1960 in Hong Kong, is a judge who serves as Vice President of the Court of Appeal of the High Court (since November 2022). She studied at the University of Hong Kong, earning an LLB in 1982 and a Master of Social Sciences in Criminology in 1994, and she earned an LLM from the London School of Economics in 1985. She was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 1983 and worked as a barrister from 1985 to 1991.

Chu began her judicial career in 1991 as a Permanent Magistrate, then became a District Judge in 1995. She served as Deputy Registrar of the High Court from 1997 to 1999, then Registrar from 1999 to 2000. She was appointed a Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court in 2000 and was elevated to the Court of Appeal in 2011. In November 2022 she became Vice President of the Court of Appeal.

She has served as Returning Officer for the Hong Kong Chief Executive elections in 2005 and 2017, and she is a member of the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission. In October 2022, she was part of a three-judge panel that ruled against Jimmy Lai, saying that while protecting press freedom is important, the protection given to journalistic material is not absolute.