Elsie Leung Oi-sie, GBM, JP is a Hong Kong politician and solicitor.
17 Facts About Elsie Leung
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Elsie Leung was Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong from 1997 to 2005 and a member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong.
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Elsie Leung was educated in Hong Kong, at Chung Wah Middle School, Sacred Heart Canossian College and the University of Hong Kong.
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Elsie Leung passed her Law Society Qualifying Examinations in 1967 and obtained her LLM degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1988.
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Elsie Leung is a past President of the International Federation of Women Lawyers.
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Elsie Leung served on various government boards and committees, including the Independent Police Complaints Council, Equal Opportunities Commission, Social Welfare Advisory Committee and Inland Revenue Board of Review.
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Elsie Leung was honorary legal adviser to many non-governmental organisations.
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Elsie Leung was a founding member of the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong.
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Elsie Leung was appointed as a Delegate of the People's Congress of Guangdong in 1989.
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On 1 July 1997, Elsie Leung became the first Secretary for Justice of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, replacing Attorney General Jeremy Mathews.
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Elsie Leung was the Chief Executive's chief legal adviser and an ex officio member of the Executive Council.
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Elsie Leung headed the Department of Justice which has a staff of over 1,000, of whom about 290 are lawyers.
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Elsie Leung is currently the Chairman of the Law Reform Commission, the Committee on Bilingual Legal System, the Legal Practitioners' Liaison Committee and serves on numerous committees, including the Fight Crime Committee and the Operations Review Committee of the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
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Elsie Leung was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal in July 2002 for her "distinguished public service", and for her "significant contributions in ensuring the successful implementation of the new constitutional order under the One country, two systems concept".
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The Hong Kong government however expressed full confidence in Elsie Leung, saying that in all the above cases she had acted entirely in accordance with the Basic Law and the prosecution policy of the Department of Justice.
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In November 2022, Elsie Leung privately shared that she backed the Court of Final Appeal's decision which allowed Jimmy Lai to hire Tim Owen, and that the NPCSC interpretation to ban foreign lawyers was not necessary, citing Xi Jinping's message that Hong Kong maintain the use of the common law system.
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However, Elsie Leung said she was not opposed to John Lee asking the NPCSC to step in.