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Ordinance
No. 1 of 1865. 58 & 59 Vict. c. 25, s. 4.
Regulations for preliminary examination.
No: 1 of 1871.
LEGAL PRACTITIONERS.
(c) "Costs" include all moneys, by whatever name called, which a client pays or is liable to pay to a solicitor for, or in respect of, or in anticipation of services rendered or to be rendered to him by such solicitor, or for or in respect of any fees, charges, or disbursements paid or made, or to be paid or made, by such solicitor for him or on his behalf.
(d) "The court" means the Supreme Court, and includes any of the judges sitting together or separately in court or in chambers.
(e) "The Hongkong Law Society" means the society of that name incorporated under the Companies Ordinance, 1865, on the 8th day of March, 1907.
(f) "Mortgage" includes any charge on any property for securing money or money's worth.
(g) "Party" includes a body of persons corporate or unincorporate.
(h) "The Registrar" means the Registrar of the court.
(i) "Solicitor" means a solicitor qualified to practice in the Colony according to law.
Service and examination of articled clerks.
3.-(1) The Chief Justice may make regulations, subject to the approval of the Legislative Council, for the preliminary examination of persons intending to become bound under 23 & 24 Vict. c. 127, s. 8, articles of clerkship to solicitors, in order to ascertain the fitness of such persons to become so bound, having regard to their general learning and education and to their character and conduct.
(2) No such preliminary examination shall be necessary in the case of any person who shall have passed the matriculation examination of the University of Hongkong, or who shall have passed an examination which would in England exempt him from passing the preliminary examination of the Law Society.
(3) Articles of clerkship shall be null and void unless the intended articled clerk shall have passed one of the examinations referred to in sub-section (2) or shall have passed the preliminary examination referred to in sub-section (1) or shall have obtained from the Chief Justice an order exempting him from such preliminary examination.
* As amended by No. 19 of 1913, No. 24 of 1921 and Law Rev. Ord., 1923.