To provide assistance primarily to appellate judges in the Court of Final Appeal and the Court of Appeal of the High Court in researching points of law, analysing and writing memoranda on appeals and leave applications, preparing memoranda on legal points, assisting with other work of those respective courts, including the preparation of press summaries and fact summaries of appeals, as well as the preparation of notes relating to judges’ external speaking engagements and participation in legal conferences. Judicial Assistants may also be required to assist in preparing specimen directions, case bulletins and publications in relation to judicial education. In addition, while the focus of the work will be appellate, Judicial Assistants may be assigned on a rotational basis to provide assistance to other judges of the Court of First Instance of the High Court and the Competition Tribunal in research and preparation of memoranda as may be required. Specifically in 2015, their duties will include assisting visiting final appellate judges from overseas jurisdictions during the Judicial Colloquium to be held in Hong Kong.

(a) Applicants should possess a Law Degree with Second Class Honours in the upper division or above, or the equivalent, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Laws. They should also be about to embark on pupillage or traineeship, or be in the course of or have completed the same, but generally should not have more than two years’ post-qualification experience. It may be noted that greater flexibility has been introduced by making candidates eligible before completion of pupillage or a traineeship. (b) Proficiency in Chinese would be a clear asset. (c) Applicants must be permanent residents of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.