Audrey Eu
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Audrey Eu Yuet-mee SC, JP |
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| 余若薇 | |
Audrey Eu in 2010
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| Chairwoman of the Civic Party | |
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In office 1 December 2012 – 19 November 2016 |
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| Deputy | Prof. Stephen Chan Tanya Chan |
| Leader |
Alan Leong Alvin Yeung |
| Preceded by |
Kenneth Chan Margaret Ng (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Alan Leong |
| Member of the Legislative Council | |
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In office 11 December 2000 – 30 September 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Gary Cheng |
| Succeeded by | Christopher Chung |
| Constituency | Hong Kong Island |
| Leader of Civic Party | |
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In office 19 March 2006 – 8 January 2011 |
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| Preceded by | New title |
| Succeeded by | Alan Leong |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
11 September 1953 Hong Kong |
| Political party | Civic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Edmund Woo Kin-wai |
| Alma mater |
St. Francis' Canossian College St. Paul's Co-educational College University of Hong Kong University of London |
| Occupation | Barrister |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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| Traditional Chinese | 余若薇 | ||||||||||
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| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Yùh Yeuhk mèih |
| Jyutping | Jyu4 Joek6mei4 |
Audrey Eu Yuet-mee (Chinese: 余若薇; born 11 September 1953, Hong Kong), LLB, LLM, SC, JP is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and the former (founding) leader of the Civic Party. She is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Civic Party, focusing on party development. Eu lost her seat in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in September 2012.
Eu studied at St. Francis' Canossian College from 1960 to 1970 and matriculated from St. Paul's Co-educational College in 1972.
She earned her LLB from the University of Hong Kong and her LLM from the University of London. She was called to the Bar in England in 1977 and the Bar in Hong Kong in 1978 and was appointed as a Queen's Counsel in 1993 (known as Senior Counsel since 1997). She continues to practice and specialises in civil law. Notable pupils of hers include Andrew Cheung, current Chief Judge of the High Court. Before entering politics, Eu was the chairlady of the Hong Kong Bar Association. She shot to prominence on the right of abode issue, at the time of the transfer of sovereignty to the People's Republic of China in 1997, she held a firm stance against the interpretation of the Hong Kong Basic Law by the National People's Congress. In 2011, she was made awarded an honorary fellowship by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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