HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
19 July 1989
香港立法局
一九八九年七月十九日
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(iii) has been so employed -
(A) for a period of at least 3 years;
(B) either immediately or recently before the date of his application for admission, on work similar to that usually undertaken by a solicitor in Hong Kong in the course of his practice;
(iv) intends, if admitted, to commence practice as a solicitor;
and
(v) is a fit person to be a solicitor; and
(b) he has passed an examination in solicitor's accounts specified
for the purposes of this paragraph by the Council.
(1AC) Subsection (1AB)(b) shall not apply in any case where the Chief Justice, after consultation with the Council, is satisfied that the applicant concerned has previously passed an examination in solicitor's
accounts.
(1AD) Notwithstanding subsection (1) and section 4(1), the Court may, in such manner as may be prescribed by the Chief Justice, admit a person as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong if the Court is satisfied that he -
(a) is a teacher in a course leading to a Postgraduate Certificate of Laws
and is employed and has been employed for at least one year as a full time law lecturer at the Department of Professional Legal Education of the University of Hong Kong or at any other institution approved for the purposes of this paragraph by the Chief Justice after consultation with the Attorney General and the Council;
(b) has been admitted in a jurisdiction listed in Schedule 1 as a solicitor,
or if there is no admission of solicitors in such jurisdiction, as a legal practitioner in that jurisdiction;
(c) has in that jurisdiction been engaged for at least 2 years in work that would, if undertaken in Hong Kong, be similar to that usually undertaken by a solicitor in Hong Kong in the course of his practice; and
(d) is a fit person to be a solicitor.