HONG KONG'S first woman High Court judge is a low profile counsel who has specialised in the drier side of the law.
Many leading barristers contacted yesterday said they had never come across the woman who has just made a name for herself in the history books.
The territory's specialist legal magazines Hong Kong Lawyer and New Gazette also knew little about the territory's first woman judge.
Doreen Le Pichon, nee Kwok, was born in China, but grew up in Hong Kong and was educated at Oxford.
She has specialised in what one lawyer described as 'the dull and dusty' end of the legal spectrum.
In Britain she spent several years at the Chancery Bar, which deals with property, probate, trusts and tax planning.
Mrs Le Pichon, who takes up her appointment on October 3, is currently deputy chief counsel at the Securities and Futures Commission.