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The Hong Kong Bar Association
Secretariat/Library: LG 3/Floor, The Supreme Court, 38 Queensway, Hong Kong
27 February 1991
Interchange No: DX-9099-IC
The Rt. Hon. Douglas Hurd M.P.
The Minister of State
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Downing Street
London SW1A 2AH
United Kingdom
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Comment
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British Nationality Package
I write in connection with the British Nationality Package and the recent announcement that employees of some firms and companies will receive up to an additional 35 points by reason of their employment. In view of the terms of the announcement and the identities of the firms included I must ask that members of the Hong Kong Bar Association and in particular those who are members of one of the 4 London Inns of Court be given like treatment and be treated as if employed by one of the companies and firms listed.
The British undertakings as approved by the Government, which are in excess of 700, include all English firms of solicitors with branches in Hong Kong as well as the two largest local firms of solicitors. Solicitors who are partners in or employed by those firms constitute a significant proportion of practising solicitors eligible to apply under the Scheme. However, all practising members of the Bar by law and their code of conduct must be self-employed. As barristers have to compete with the other professionals within the Legal Professionals Group which includes predominantly solicitors, the implementation of this aspect of the Scheme at present has the undoubted effect of discriminating against all practising members of the Hong Kong Bar Association.
The avowed purpose of the Scheme is to give reassurance to persons who are considered to be essential to the well-being of Hong Kong in the run-up to 1997. Under the existing legal system, members of the Bar and those of the Law Society constitute two separate branches of the legal profession with clearly defined and distinct functions. Thus the preservation of the practising Bar, which at present has under 450 members but is out-numbered by the solicitors in the ratio of about 1:6, is indispensable to the
香港大律師公會
金鐘道38號高等法院低層三樓
Chairmen: Anthony G. Rogers, Q.C. 會長 羅傑志
Hon. Secretary & Treasurer: Denis G.Q.C. Yu 名譽秘書及財政
余國-
Administrative Secretary: Mrs Margaret W. Lam
行政秘書
林韋曼儀
執行委員會會員
Bar Committee Members:
Miss Jacqueline Leong, Q.C. 梁冰濂
Kenneth H.W. Kwok 郭慶偉
Andrew C. Macrae 麥機智
Alan Hoo, Q.C.,
胡漢清
Miss Gladys Li, Q.C. 李志喜
Robert Ribeiro, Q.C. 李義
Winston Poon
潘松輝
Michael Ozorio 歐文豪
Johannes Chan
陳文敏
Alan Leong
梁家傑
Mrs Lisa Remedios 李吳維敏
Alfred Chan
陳洪慶
Please Address All Correspondence to the Bar Secretariat