Frank Stock

Frank Stock, GBS (; born 15 June 1945) is a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal. He was until 2014 a Vice President of the Hong Kong Court of Appeal.

Early life and education Born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Stock received his education in the United Kingdom. In 1967, he graduated from the University of Liverpool with a law degree.

Legal career In 1968, Stock started his legal career as a barrister in England and Wales where he was in private practice for 10 years. He moved to Hong Kong in 1978 where he served in the Legal Department as a Crown Counsel. Within a year, he was promoted to Senior Crown Counsel, and by 1984, he was Principal Crown Counsel. Stock was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 1984 and took silk in 1985.

Stock served as the Solicitor General of Hong Kong from 1987 to 1991. He left the civil service to pursue a judicial career following the end of his tenure.

Judicial career In 1991, Stock sat as a Deputy High Court Judge.

He was appointed a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal in 2010. From 2010 to 2014, he primarily sat in the Court of Appeal and heard a few cases in the Court of Final Appeal.

He retired from the Court of Appeal as a full-time judge in 2014, but remains a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal.

In 2014, Stock was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star by the Chief Executive.

In May 2023, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) of the United States Congress suggested the United States government imposing sanctions on Stock to counter the erosion of democratic freedoms in Hong Kong over his handling of Jimmy Lai's national security law case.