Robert Tang has been appointed a Judge of the High Court's Court of First Instance, with effect from April 2.

Mr Tang has held the office of Recorder of the High Court's Court of First Instance since 1995.

He has been in private practice since 1970 and was appointed as Queen's Counsel in 1986.

He served as a Deputy District Judge in 1982 and as a High Court Deputy Judge in 1986.

Mr Tang was born in Shanghai in 1947. After obtaining a law degree from Birmingham University in 1969, he was called to the Bar of Gray's Inn in England in 1969, to the Bar in Hong Kong in 1970, to the Bar of Victoria, Australia, in 1984, to the Bar of the State of New York in 1986 and was admitted as a Barrister in Singapore in 1992.