Qualifications
QC (Hong Kong), SC, BA, LLB (Victoria University of Wellington), M Sc (Canterbury), Barrister of the High Court of New Zealand, of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. of the Supreme Court of Victoria, of the High Court of Australia, of the High Court of Hong Kong, of the High Court of Fiji, of the High Court of the Isle of Man, of the English Bar (Middle Temple)
Background
Gerard McCoy is Professor of Law at City University
He is on retainer to the Hong Kong Government to act for it in its constitutional law litigation. He also regularly prosecutes serious criminal cases. He was the Chief Prosecutor in the case of State v George Speight & Ors for treason in the High Court of Fiji. He regularly appears as counsel in the highest courts of a large number of different common law jurisdictions.
He has been accepted as an expert witness in the Law of Hong Kong in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and the United Kingdom. He has been appointed as a Deputy Judge of the High Court of Hong Kong since 2001, exercising full civil and criminal law jurisdiction. He is a member of the Hong Kong Law Reform Commission, Hearsay in criminal law subcommittee. In 2004 he was appointed by the Attorney-General of Fiji and the Fiji Law Reform Commission to completely rewrite the Criminal Law and Procedure of Fiji.
Authored Books
- AA Bruce & GJX McCoy, Criminal Evidence in Hong Kong, Butterworths, 1991 (now in 3rd edition and loose-leaf)
- DJ Clark & GJX McCoy, Administrative Law in Hong Kong, Butterworths, 1992 (now in 2nd edition)
- DJ Clark & GJX McCoy, Habeas Corpus – Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, Federation Press, 2000
- DJ Clark & GJX McCoy, The Most Fundamental Right: Habeas Corpus in the Commonwealth, Clarendon Press, Oxford University, 2000
General Editor
- New Zealand Administrative Reports,: 1997 - Present
- Hong Kong Cases, Law Reports, 1993 - Present
- Hong Kong Public Law Reports, 1993 - Present
- Archbold: Hong Kong 2004 Criminal Law, Practice & Pleadings
- Consultant Editor
- Hong Kong Law Reports and Digest, 1997 - Present Search
