Richard Gordon QC has been appointed as an Honorary Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for three years with effect from 2^nd May 2008.   Other Honorary Professors at CUHK include Lord Woolf of Barnes and Professor Sir David Williams QC.

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