The handling of the Ma Jiajian case provoked Liang Zhuoran was reportedly appointed as deputy judge of the High Court

According to reports, former Criminal Prosecutor and Senior Counsel Liang Zhuoran will join the Judiciary early next month as a deputy judge of the High Court for a period of six months to the end of March next year.

According to the procedure, if Liang Zhuoran wants to "sit upright" and formally become a judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, he must be recommended by the Judicial Staff Recommendation Committee and appointed by the Chief Executive. It is an ex officio member of the committee.

If "sit upright", the judicial officer recommendation committee must approve

Liang Zhuoran left his post as the Commissioner of Criminal Prosecutions at the end of last year. After nine months of "overly cold river", it is said that he will serve as a deputy judge of the High Court for a period of six months because he is only a "temporary commissioner" and does not need to be recommended by judicial officers. The approval is directly appointed by the Chief Judge Zhang Juneng of the Final Court.

In August last year, Liang Zhuoran resigned as the Commissioner of Criminal Prosecutions and resigned at the end of last year.

It is reported that before he resigned, Leung Cheuk-ran sent an email to a colleague, bluntly saying that he did not confess to the Secretary for Justice in the operation of the Criminal Prosecution Division, and the situation has not improved. Therefore, I hope that the Secretary will find another criminal prosecutor and can share new opinions and opinions. Bring into this department.

In the past 30 years of legal experience, he has been engaged in criminal prosecution work in the government for a long time

Leung Zhuoran is 51 years old. He was qualified as a lawyer in Hong Kong in 1992 and then became a barrister in 1998. After obtaining the legal qualification, he has accumulated nearly 30 years of work experience in the legal profession.

Liang Zhuoran joined the Criminal Prosecution Division of the Department of Justice in 1995 as a public prosecutor. In 1997, he was promoted to Senior Government Counsel. He became Deputy Chief Government Counsel in 2009 and was promoted to Chief Government Counsel in December 2013. He has been in the Criminal Prosecution Division. He has served as Deputy Commissioner of Criminal Prosecutions since 2012, was appointed as Senior Counsel in 2015, and was appointed as Commissioner of Criminal Prosecutions in December 2017.

In a recent case that has attracted public attention, the 25-year-old Ma Jiajian was charged with attempting to traffic in drugs and was sentenced to 23 years in prison. After serving 5 years in prison, he appealed and was acquitted last month.

In addition to his master Paul Chan, who became the focus of the incident, Liang Zhuoran also became the focus of the incident. It is reported that the judge raised a number of doubts about the prosecution that year. When the court opened in 2019, when the prosecution’s external barrister Zhou Jiajun responded to whether the trial judge would continue the case, Said that the decision to obtain permission from the Commissioner of Criminal Prosecution, the then Commissioner was Liang Zhuoran.

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