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4. The issues raised by Government in its original 1988 proposals, and its revised 1989 proposals, have been under active review by two Law Society committees established in 1990, namely the Regulation of Foreign Lawyers Committee and the Foreign Lawyers Accreditation Committee.
5. The first phase of the work of the Foreign Lawyers Accreditation Committee has been completed, and a draft Scheme has been developed and is the subject of a separate paper to Council which was published in July accreditation scheme which has been
6.
7.
1991.
developed
The
will be standards-based and will apply to all foreign lawyers, including those from the U.K.
The regulation of Foreign Lawyers Committee ("the Committee") as now constituted held its first meeting
in September 1990. The Committee has held 39 meetings between September 1990 and October 1991.
The membership of the Committee is currently:
A. Donald Yap
Ronald Arculli
James J. Bertram
Roland Chow
Ambrose H.C. Lau
Graham D. Morrison
Tim Parkes
David Sutton
8.
Important
in the Committee's
deliberations
was the
desire to ensure that Hong pre-eminent
Kong
Kong should remain a
commercial and
legal centre in the
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