 In 1983, he was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services in Hong Kong.In 1994, he was made the Commissioner for Administrative Complaints, the ombudsman of Hong Kong, to succeed Arthur Garcia, by Governor Chris Patten.He held the position until April 1999 when Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa replaced him with a civil servant Alice Tai Yuen-ying.