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Place of Birth: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
About Noel Power
- Sir Noel Plunkett Power, GBS (Traditional Chinese: ?????, 4 December 1929 – 19 November 2009) was a senior judge in Hong Kong and Brunei Darussalam.
- He had been a barrister-at-law in his home-country Australia when he joined the judiciary of Hong Kong in 1965 as a magistrate in the Lands Tribunal.
- Since then, he had been successively promoted as President of the Lands Tribunal, a puisne judge of the Supreme Court and Vice-President of the Court of Appeal.
- In 1996, he became acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when Sir Ti-liang Yang resigned and contested for the first ever election of the Chief Executive.
- After the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from Britain to People's Republic of China in 1997, he was appointed Vice-President of the Court of Appeal of the High Court.
- He retired from the High Court in 1999 but remained as a non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal. Sir Noel was honoured with a knighthood and a Gold Bauhinia Star in 1999 by the British monarch and the Government of Hong Kong respectively.
- He chaired an independent inquiry to probe into the opinion poll scandal of the University of Hong Kong in 2000.
- In 2005, he was one of the presiding judges of the Court of Final Appeal who heard the inheritance dispute between local tycoon Nina Wang and her old-aged father-in-law.
- In his later years, Sir Noel was a judge of the Court of Appeal of Brunei Darussalam and was appointed President in 2007.
- He died in office in 2009.
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