24 Facts About Priscilla Leung

Priscilla Leung Mei-fun is a barrister and Hong Kong Legislative Councillor, representing the Election Committee since 2022.

Priscilla Leung previously represented the Kowloon West constituency from 2008 to 2021.

Priscilla Leung was a member of Kowloon City District Council.

Priscilla Leung is a barrister and professor of practice at the City University of Hong Kong's School of Law, where her husband, Wang Guiguo, was the Dean.

Priscilla Leung has taught at the School of Law for the past 24 years and specialises in Chinese law, Hong Kong Basic Law, and conflict of laws between mainland China and Hong Kong.

Priscilla Leung has been a Legislative Councillor since 2008, currently representing the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong.

Priscilla Leung has been a supporter of most government bills and often crash with pro-democracy lawmakers.

Priscilla Leung is chairman of the Legislative Council's Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services.

On 21 January 2010, in a response to the quasi-referendum on universal suffrage, triggered by the resignation of five pan-democrat members of LegCo, Priscilla Leung announced she would introduce a private member's bill to forbid legislators who resign from running in elections in the same four-year term.

In January 2021, following the arrest of 53 pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong for organizing primaries for the 2020 Legislative Council, Priscilla Leung stated that the government should investigate whether the primaries were a violation of the National Security Law.

Priscilla Leung has claimed that dual nationality is not allowed in Hong Kong, even though high-level government officials, including Carrie Lam, Tam Yiu-chung, and Tung Chee-hwa have children with foreign citizenship.

In February 2021, Priscilla Leung said that a special committee should be created to vet people who run for elections, claiming that some had been voted into office and then called for Hong Kong independence or self-determination.

Priscilla Leung said that creating a "eligibility vetting committee" to filter out certain candidates would close the loophole.

Priscilla Leung is a social conservative, opposed to same-sex marriage and equal rights for same-sex couples.

Priscilla Leung said the government should not help secure venues for the 2022 Gay Games in Hong Kong, and claimed that most people in Hong Kong would want to "protect the heterosexual marriage system".

In July 2022, Priscilla Leung claimed that "Hong Kong was never a colony" was nothing new.

In October 2022, during a Legislative Council Panel on Health Services, Priscilla Leung was warned 4 times not to keep switching between English and Cantonese; Priscilla Leung then flung the document from her hands and left the meeting.

In January 2024, after the 2023 local elections produced a record-low turnout, Priscilla Leung said that the turnout would have been better if it were not for some technical glitches.

In November 2022, Priscilla Leung said that if Hong Kong courts allowed Jimmy Lai to hire Tim Owen, then Beijing might get involved to block the hiring of Owen.

In January 2023, after the NPCSC interpreted the law and gave the Chief Executive power to ban foreign lawyers, Priscilla Leung echoed Tam Yiu-chung's opinion that it would only benefit the city.

In March 2022, Priscilla Leung revealed that her brother passed away from Covid-19 after earlier receiving one vaccine dose in February 2022, though the government recommended that citizens receive 3 doses.

Priscilla Leung criticized the government for supposedly not allocating medical resources properly.

Priscilla Leung published different articles and books, in English and Chinese, on the areas of Chinese law, Hong Kong Basic Law, and conflict of laws between mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Priscilla Leung was awarded the Ten Outstanding Young Persons award for the year 2000 by the Christian group Junior Chamber International Hong Kong who, in 2015, claimed membership of about 2,000.