Andrew Chan

In 2018, Chan presided over the trial in the High Court of a number of Occupy protestors charged with contempt of court for impeding the due execution of a High Court injunction by refusing to leave the junction of Nathan Road and Portland Street in Mong Kok in 2014. A member of the public, Tang Lin-ling, who was sitting in the public gallery and observing the first day of the trial, took three photographs on her mobile phone inside the courtroom (where photography is prohibited). Tang said to Chan, "I’m happy to take pictures with you, judge." Chan replied to Tang, "This is a big issue in my court. Too many people have come to court to take pictures of witnesses and jurors." Chan adjourned the matter and released Tang on HK$50,000 bail. However, Tang failed to post bail. The Police discovered that the residential address given by Tang was non-existent. Chan therefore issued an arrest warrant for Tang. Tang was subsesquently arrested at the JW Marriott Hotel and brought before Chan, who ordered Tang to be remanded in custody.

In 2017, Chan presided over the trial of former Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Donald Tsang, in the High Court on charges of bribery and misconduct in public office. The jury convicted Tsang of misconduct in public office, but could not agree on the bribery charge. When Chan sentenced Tsang to 20 months' imprisonment for the count of misconduct in public office, he said, "To the outside world, sentencing appears to be an easy task. To most judges, it is the most difficult part of their jobs. This case is of no exception. Never in my judicial career have I seen a man fallen from so high".

In 2017, Chan (sitting with Mr Justice Au in the High Court) heard and dismissed the application brought by Nancy Kissel (who had been convicted of the murder of her husband, investment banker Robert Kissel) for judicial review of the Long‑term Prison Sentences Review Board's decision not to make a recommendation to convert her indeterminate life sentence to a determinate one so as to facilitate her release.

In 2015, Chan was appointed as Chairman of the Inquiry into the incidents of excess lead found in drinking water.

In 2013, Chan presided over the trial in the High Court of Lam Mei-ling, who was found guilty of laundering HK$6.7 billion (a daily average of HK$5 million) between May 2002 and December 2005. It was the second-biggest money laundering case in Hong Kong. Chan sentenced Lam to 10 years' imprisonment.

He sat as a Deputy High Court Judge from 2010 to 2012.

In 2009, Du Jun, a managing director of Morgan Stanley, was tried before Chan in the District Court. Du was convicted of 10 counts of insider dealing in HK$87 million worth of shares in CITIC Resources. Chan sentenced Du to 7 years’ imprisonment and fined over HK$23 million. At the time, the case was described by the Securities and Futures Commission as Hong Kong's largest insider trading case.

In 1998, Chan joined the bench as a Permanent Magistrate. In 2007, he became a District Judge.

Chan graduated from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom with a Bachelor of Pharmacy in 1984. He received an LLB from the University of London External System in 1989. In 1990, he was called to the bar in England at Gray's Inn and in Hong Kong.