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Prefatory Note
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The Foreign Lawyers Accreditation Sub-Committee established as a sub-committee of the Regulation of Foreign Lawyers Committee pursuant to the Council's decision to set up an accreditation system to enable lawyers
foreign qualified to be admitted as Hong Kong solicitors. negotiations added extra impetus to the accreditation system.
The membership of the sub-committee is:-
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Simon Ip, Johnson Stokes & Master (Chairman)
Michael Blanchflower, Attorney General's Chambers Neil Gold, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong
Tim Parkes, Herbert Smith
Michael Wilkinson, Hong Kong University
Anna Wu, Robert W.H. Wang & Co.
Mary Gold, Law Society of Hong Kong Adeline Goh (Secretary)
The terms of reference are:
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for the Council's system for admission of
consideration
an
non-Hong Kong
To draw up accreditation qualified lawyers to practise as Hong Kong solicitors.
To consider what
qualified
lawyers
examination, if
any, non-Hong Kong should be required to pass and what practical training they should undergo in order to be admitted as Hong Kong solicitors.
To consider what to be introduced lawyers
training.
to pass
facilities are available or may need to enable non-Hong
examinations or
Kong qualified
undergo practical
To consider the need to seek expert assistance in the establishment of an accreditation system.
The sub-committee met on six occasions.
This paper should be read in conjunction with the report from the Regulation of Foreign Lawyers' Committee
The proposed policy
policy which has been
Foreign relaxing
Lawyers Accreditation
formulated
Sub-committee
by the is aimed at
the existing restrictions on the admission of
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