11 Facts About Geoffrey Ma

Geoffrey Ma's great-grandfather was the imam of the Muslim community in Shanghai before the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Geoffrey Ma's parents moved to Hong Kong from Tianjin in the late 1940s.

Geoffrey Ma represented the Director of Immigration in the right of abode cases.

Geoffrey Ma was Head of Chambers of Temple Chambers in Hong Kong prior to his judicial appointment.

Geoffrey Ma was appointed by the Hong Kong Judiciary as Recorder of the Court of First Instance of the High Court in December 2000.

Geoffrey Ma warned lawyers against devising new tactics to make civil proceedings unnecessarily lengthy and inefficient.

Geoffrey Ma was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal in June 2012 by the Hong Kong Government, and the title of Officier de l'Ordre de la Legion d'Honneur was conferred on him by the French Government in 2015.

Geoffrey Ma was elected an honorary bencher of Gray's Inn in 2004, making him the third person in Hong Kong conferred with such honour.

Geoffrey Ma was made an honorary fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford in 2012; he serves as a member of the advisory board of the Commercial Law Centre at the college.

Geoffrey Ma has been appointed as Honorary Professor of both the University of Hong Kong's and the Chinese University of Hong Kong's respective law faculties.

Geoffrey Ma commended his sterling contribution in enhancing the efficiency, effectiveness and transparency of judicial administration.