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The newly constituted Advisory Committee on Legal Education has examined the complicated issues involved in the enrolment restriction. But, as Members would expect, it is not possible to consider these in isolation and larger questions have had to be considered in particular what is the future demand for lawyers in Hong Kong and how that demand is to be met.
The Advisory Committee has now produced and presented its First Report. This has recently been considered by the Executive Council and approved in principle.
The Committee has recommended that there should be three possible ways of qualifying for admission as a solicitor. First, through the School of Law at the University of Hong Kong. Secondly, through a separate course of legal education for non-law graduates and mature students; and thirdly, through a course for employed trainces.
In making these recommendations the Committee noted the necessity to make some increase in the present projected growth figures for solicitors in Hong Kong and that there was a limit to the number of under-graduates and graduates who could be admitted to the School of Law. The Committee also felt that, unless there was some flexibility in the methods of obtaining qualifications, there was a risk that suitable entrants to the profession would not come forward.
But in the limited time available to the Committee it has not been possible for it to consider all possibilities and work out in detail the different alternatives. Detailed investigations and much effort will be required to devise suitable courses of training and determine who is to provide them. Other major questions are the finding of suitable lecturers, the conducting of examinations and the provision of money to finance these schemes.
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