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Responsibility for advice on Hong Kong law
5.26
A foreign lawyer in a foreign law firm will not be permitted to advise on Hong Kong law irrespective of whether there is a solicitor employee or solicitor partner in the firm. Similarly, a foreign lawyer in a domestic firm will not be permitted to advise on Hong Kong law. Moreover, in the case of any foreign law firm employing a solicitor, that solicitor should be responsible only to a solicitor partner of that firm in respect of any advice
Failure to comply with given by him on Hong Kong law. these rules might properly form the basis of disciplinary proceedings against the solicitor or foreign lawyer, as case may be.
Supervision of office
5.27
A foreign lawyer should ensure that every office where he or his firm practises is and can reasonably be seen to be supervised, in accordance with the following minimum standards
(a)
every such office should be managed by a foreign lawyer and in the case of a firm in which a solicitor is employed or in partnership, by a solicitor holding a practising certificate who should normally be in attendance at that office during all hours when it is open to the public;
and
(b)
every such office should be attended on each day when it is open to the public by a foreign lawyer who holds a practising certificate, and in the case of a firm in which a solicitor is employed or is in partnership, by a solicitor who holds a practising certificate being either a principal or employee of the firm and who should spend sufficient time at such office to
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