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A decade later he joined the attorney general’s chambers in Hong Kong as a crown counsel. He was part of the Hong Kong government contingent on the British side in the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group. He went into private practice in 1991 and was one of the last barristers to be appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1997.
In his own words, here are the five books he would take to a desert island.
Die Welt von Gestern (The World of Yesterday)
by Stefan Zweig, 1942
Originally written in German, this marvellous book provides a fascinating insight into a world that has gone forever. Zweig was born to a Jewish family in Vienna in 1881 and lived long enough to see that familiar society on the way to destruction – he died in 1942.