Grenville Cross
Ian Grenville Cross, QC, SC, JP (江樂士) (born 15 June 1951) was appointed Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) of Hong Kong, on 15 October 1997, and held this post for 12 years, until 21 October 2009. Prior to his appointment, he had served as the Deputy DPP of Hong Kong since 1991, specialising in appellate advocacy. In that capacity, he prosecuted the last criminal case from Hong Kong to be heard by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (R v Peter Maclennan), in June 1997, and the first criminal case to be heard by the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (HKSAR v Mui Po Chu), in September 1997.
After relinqiushing his post, Cross was appointed Special Counsel to the Secretary for Justice, Hong Kong, China, on 22 October 2009.
Cross was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1990, and became Senior Counsel in 1997, following the reunification of Hong Kong with China. In 1999, he was appointed a Justice of the Peace.
Cross was educated privately at Culford School (1959-1969), Suffolk, England, where he chaired the Debating Society. He graduated in law from Southampton University, where he chaired the Conservative and Unionist Association, in 1973. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales by the Middle Temple, of which he was a Blackstone Entrance Exhibitioner, in 1974, and admitted to the Bar of Hong Kong, in 1981.
Cross practised on the South Eastern Circuit of England and Wales from the chambers of Jeffrey Thomas, QC, MP, at 3, Temple Gardens, London, EC4, from 1974 to 1976. He was a public prosecutor for HM Customs and Excise Department for England and Wales from 1976 to 1978. He joined the Attorney General's Chambers (now the Department of Justice) of Hong Kong as Crown Counsel in 1978.
Cross was appointed Adjunct Professor of Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, in 2004. He is the author of Sentencing in Hong Kong[1], LexisNexis, now in its fifth edition. Cross is the Sentencing Editor of Archbold Hong Kong[2], Sweet & Maxwell, and Associate Editor of Hong Kong Cases. He has also served as General Editor of the Criminal Appeals Bulletin [3], and as Contributing Editor of Hong Kong Law Reports and Digest.
Cross has served as Chairman of the Committee on the Evidence of Children in Criminal Proceedings, Chairman of the Committee on Information Technology in Courts, and Chairman of the Committee on Costs in Criminal Proceedings.
Cross was elected to the Executive Committee of the International Association of Prosecutors, in 2007. He had previously led his Office into organisational membership of the Association, in 2001. He hosted the Association's 2nd Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, in 2004, and its 12th Annual Conference and General Meeting, in 2007. He is a recipient of the Association's Certificate of Merit.