Grenville Cross

Ian Grenville Cross, SC, JP (江樂士) (born 15 June 1951) was appointed Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) of Hong Kong, China, on 15 October 1997. Prior to that, he had, since 1991, been the Deputy DPP, specialising in appellate advocacy. He was appointed as Queen’s Counsel in 1990, and became Senior Counsel in 1997, following the reunification of Hong Kong with China.

He was educated at Culford School and 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 to the Bar of Hong Kong in 1981. Prior to his appointment as a public prosecutor in 1976, he practiced on the South Eastern Circuit, from the chambers of Jeffrey Thomas, QC, MP. He joined the Attorney General’s Chambers (now the Department of Justice) of Hong Kong as Crown Counsel in 1978.

Cross, who was appointed Adjunct Professor of Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, in 2004, is the author of Sentencing in Hong Kong, Sentencing Editor of Archbold Hong Kong, General Editor of the Criminal Appeals Bulletin and Associate Editor of the Hong Kong Cases.

He has served as Chairman of the Committee on Information Technology in Courts, Chairman of the Committee on Costs in Criminal Proceedings and Chairman of the Committee on the Evidence of Children in Criminal Proceedings.

Cross was elected to the Executive Committee of the International Association of Prosecutors in 2007.

Directors of Public Prosecutions of Hong Kong, China
1979 – 1982 David Boy QC
1982 – 1984 Max Lucas QC
1984 – 1986 Joseph Duffy QC
1986 – 1989 James Findlay QC
1989 – 1990 Anthony Duckett QC (Acting)
1990 – 1994 John Wood
1994 – 1997 Peter Nguyen QC
1997 – ------- Grenville Cross SC"'