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Audrey Eu Yuet-mee JP SC
余若薇
Chairperson of theCivic Party
In office 1 December 2012 – 19 November 2016
Deputy	Prof. Stephen Chan Tanya Chan
Leader	Alan Leong Alvin Yeung
Preceded by	Kenneth Chan Margaret Ng(Acting)
Succeeded by	Alan Leong
Member of theLegislative Council
In office 11 December 2000 – 30 September 2012
Preceded by	Gary Cheng
Succeeded by	Christopher Chung
Constituency	Hong Kong Island
Leader ofCivic Party
In office 19 March 2006 – 8 January 2011
Preceded by	New title
Succeeded by	Alan Leong
Personal details
Born	(1953-09-11)11 September 1953 (age 72) Hong Kong
Political party	Civic Party
Spouse	Edmund Woo Kin-wai
Alma mater	St. Francis' Canossian College St. Paul's Co-educational College University of Hong Kong London School of Economics
Occupation	Barrister

Audrey Eu Yuet-mee is a Hong Kong lawyer and politician who representedHong Kong Island in theLegislative Council of Hong Kong from 2000 to 2012. Eu was the founding leader of theCivic Party and was a member of the party's executive committee, focusing on party development. In politics, Eu has focused on matters relating to theBasic Law.

Audrey Eu was born on 11 September 1953 in Hong Kong. She studied atSt. Francis' Canossian College from 1960 to 1970, and matriculated fromSt. Paul's Co-educational College in 1972.^[1]

She earned herBachelor of Laws from theUniversity of Hong Kong and herMaster of Laws from theLondon School of Economics. She was called to the Bar in England in 1977 and the Bar in Hong Kong in 1978 and was appointed as aQueen's Counsel in 1993 (known asSenior Counsel since 1997).^[2] She continues to practice and specialises incivil law. Notable pupils includedAndrew Cheung, Chief Justice of theCourt of Final Appeal.^[3] Before entering politics, Eu was the chair of theHong Kong Bar Association. She shot to prominence on theright of abode issue, at the time of thetransfer of sovereignty to the People's Republic of China in 1997, she held a firm stance against the interpretation of theHong Kong Basic Law by theNational People's Congress. In 2011, she was awarded an honorary fellowship by theLondon School of Economics and Political Science.^[4]

Eu decided to enter into politics in 2000. She contested theHong Kong by-election that year and successfully gained a seat at theLegislative Council of Hong Kong, replacingGary Cheng, who resigned from his seat amid controversy. She then became a founding member of theBasic Law Article 23 Concern Group, which later became theBasic Law Article 45 Concern Group, then theCivic Party in 2005.^{[citation needed]}

In 2002, when the Hong Kong Government wanted to alter the existingArticle 23 concerning treason and sedition, Eu, with some other notable members of the Bar, includingAlan Leong,Margaret Ng,Ronny Tong, formed theBasic Law Article 23 Concern Group. Before the draft Bill became public, Eu put forward strong opinions and statements opposing certain measures of the Article 23 legislation. Her campaigning helped her significantly raise her public profile after 1 July 2003, demonstrations.^{[citation needed]}

Concern started to grow among Hong Kong residents later aboutArticles 45 and68 of the Basic Law in 2004. There were also uncertainties concerning the future of the next2007 Chief Executive election and the next4th LegCo elections in 2008. In response, Eu, along with other barristers includingMargaret Ng andRonny Tong, formed theBasic Law Article 45 Concern Group that advocated fully democratic processes in the form ofuniversal suffrage in both elections. She found most support with the middle-class.^{[citation needed]}

Eu ran for the2004 LegCo election for theHong Kong Island constituency in the same ballot asCyd Ho fromThe Frontier. The "Eu-Ho" pair obtained 73,844 votes which resulted in Eu obtaining a seat at the expense of Ho, who lost out to her nearestDAB rivalChoy So Yuk by a mere 815 votes. This was seen as a blunder by the pan-democratic camp, asHong Kong Democratic Party LegCo candidateMartin Lee had more than enough votes to be elected, directly impacting Cyd Ho's election chances.^{[citation needed]}

Eu was the founding leader of the party, and held the office from 19 March 2006 to 8 January 2011.^[5]

She stood for and was returned in theHong Kong Island geographical constituency for the2008 Hong Kong legislative election. She was placed second on the Civic Party ticket, behind newcomerTanya Chan, who was also elected. After deducting the quotient required for the first seat, the remainder to Eu was only 30,362, enable Eu to win a seat in the constituency with the lowest number of vote. She got 525 votes less than her former running mate in the 2004 election Cyd Ho. However, Eu lost her seat in theLegislative Council in September 2012 after gave up her safe seat in Hong Kong Island geographical constituency toKenneth Chan Ka-lok.^{[citation needed]}

In the debate over the Hong Kong government's2009 reform package (referred to by government as the '2012 constitutional reform package') she was among the firmer voices in the pan-democratic camp, supporting the January 2010 resignation by fivepan-democrat Legislative Councillors to force aby-election in which they re-stood (and were re-elected), intended as referendum on democracy. In the run-up to 23 June 2010 Legco vote on the reform package she refused support, saying that it did not go far enough towards democratic expectations, even if it included theDemocratic Party's compromise proposal to have thefive new district council functional constituency seats returned by popular election.^[6]

Eu is a patron ofSt John's Cathedral HIV Education Centre and was formerly a member of theConsumer Council's Management Committee of its Consumer Legal Action Fund.^{[citation needed]}

Eu is a practising barrister. She was on defence team ofJimmy Lai, opposite to her brother, Benjamin Yu Yuk-hoi, who led the prosecution of Lai beginning in 2021.^[7]

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