| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable Mr Justice |
| Barnabas Fung Wah | |
| Native Name Lang: | zh-hk |
| Honorific-Suffix: | GBS |
| Office: | Chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission |
| Term Start: | 17 August 2009 |
| Term End: | 16 August 2022 |
| Predecessor: | Pang Kin-kee |
| Office2: | Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court |
| Term Start2: | 2006 |
| Office3: | Chief District Judge |
| Term Start3: | 2001 |
| Term End3: | 2006 |
| Predecessor3: | Richard Hawkes |
| Successor3: | Patrick Li |
| Office4: | District Judge |
| Term Start4: | 1998 |
| Term End4: | 2001 |
| Office5: | Permanent Magistrate |
| Term Start5: | 1993 |
| Term End5: | 1998 |
| Birth Place: | Hong Kong |
| Alma Mater: | University of New South Wales University of Hong Kong |
Barnabas Fung Wah, GBS (; born 1960) is a Hong Kong judge. He has served as a High Court Judge since 2006.
Since 2016, Fung has served as a Panel Judge handling interception and surveillance authorisation requests from law enforcement agencies.[1] [2]
He was Chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission from 2009 to 2022.
He previously served as Chairman and Director of the Hong Kong Children's Choir.[3]
Fung was educated at Wah Yan College, Hong Kong and Barker College, Australia.[4] He graduated from the University of New South Wales with a BComm and LLB in 1984 and 1985 respectively. He obtained his PCLL from the University of Hong Kong in 1986.[5]
Fung was called to the New South Wales Bar and Hong Kong Bar in 1985 and 1986 respectively. He was a barrister in private practice in Hong Kong from 1987 to 1993.[5]
In 1993, Fung joined the bench as a Permanent Magistrate. He became a District Judge in 1998 and was subsequently appointed as Chief District Judge in 2001.[5] [6]
Fung sat as a Deputy High Court Judge intermittently from December 2001 to July 2006.[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
In November 2006, Fung was appointed as a Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court.[5] He was the Judge in charge of the Personal Injury List from 2008 to 2010.
Fung acted as Returning Officer for the 2007 Hong Kong Chief Executive election.[13]
In 2009, Fung was appointed as Chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission.[14] He was re-appointed in 2013 and 2017 (for a term of 5 years until 2022).[15] [16] On 16 August 2022, it was announced that Fung's chairmanship of the EAC expired that day and the Government was actively identifying his successor, whose appointment would be announced in due course.[17]
Fung has sat in the Court of Appeal in a number of civil and criminal appeal cases.[18]