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'Secretary for Justice' () is a member of the Hong Kong Government responsible for prosecutions and legal matters. The Secretary for Justice heads the Department of Justice. The Secretary for Justice is the third in line, after the Chief Secretary and the Financial Secretary, to act for the Chief Executive when the Chief Executive is on leave or is outside of Hong Kong, and to assume the duty of the office of the Chief Executive when the position is temporarily vacant. The current Secretary for Justice is Wong Yan Lung.
Before the transfer of sovereignty, the position was titled 'Attorney General' (律政司), and the department was called Legal Department.

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List of Attorneys General before 1997

List of Secretaries for Justice

List of Attorneys General before 1997

Before 1997, the Department of Justice was known as the Legal Department. It was headed by the Attorney General:

★ George Phillippo 1876-1879

★ Edward Louchlin O'Malley (1884-1889)

★ W. Meigh Goodman (1890-1902)

★ Sir Henry Spencer Berkeley (1902-1906)

★ Rees Davies (1907-1912)

★ J. A. S. Bucknill (1912-1914)

★ Sir Joseph H. Kemp (1914-1930)

★ C. G. Alabaster (1930-1941)

★ G. E. Strickland (acting) (1946)

★ John Bowes Griffin (1947-1951)

★ Arthur Ridehalgh (1952-1961)

★ Maurice Heenan (1962-1966)

★ Denys Tudor Emil Roberts (1966-1973)

★ John Williams Dixon Hobley (1973-1979)

★ John Calvert Griffiths (1979-1983)

★ Michael David Thomas (1983-1988)

★ Jeremy Fell Mathews (1988 - June 30 1997)

List of Secretaries for Justice

★ Elsie Leung (July 1 1997 - October 19, 2005)

★ Wong Yan Lung (October 20 2005 - )