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"FOREIGN LAWYERS WILL NOT BE PERMITTED UNDER TO PRACTISE HONG KONG LAW. THERE IS IN THIS CASE NO
MR MARTIN STRESSED. PRESENT POSITION,
"IT HAS BEEN
SUGGESTED
FLOODGATES TO FOREIGN LAWYERS.
THESE PROPOSALS CHANGE. FROM
THE
THAT
THE
WILL PROPOSAL
OPEN THE
ARE HERE ALREADY.
LESSENED, IN
"THAT IS NOT THE PROPOSAL, FOREIGN LAWYERS THE CRITERIA THEY PRESENTLY HAVE TO SATISFY WILL NOT BE
HE NOTED. FACT THEY WILL BE FORMALISED AND TIGHTENED,
IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT THE LAW SOCIETY'S RIGHT OF SELF-REGULATION.
पा
PROPOSAL INTERFERES
WITH
THE
AS,
HAVE
OVER
DEFINED POWERS HONG
"THAT IS NOT THE PROPOSAL, IT WILL IN FACT STRENGTHEN THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE LAW SOCIETY WILL HAVE CLEARLY OF DISCIPLINE OVER FOREIGN LAWYERS AS THEY PRESENTLY KONG SOLICITORS, MR MARTIN SAID.
"I
THE
то BOWED HAS "IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT THE GOVERNMENT
IT HAS PRESSURE OF TRADE SANCTIONS. WE REPEAT THAT THIS IS NOT TRUE.
HE SAID. PLAYED NO PART WHATSOEVER IN OUR DELIBERATIONS,
"
THE DEPUTY SOLICITOR GENERAL ALSO REFUTED SUGGESTIONS THAT PROPOSALS ARE RADICAL.
ΤΟ
FOREIGN RIGHT'S
WILL EXTEND "THEY ARE NOT. THEY
SIMILAR CRITERIA ENTRY THE MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL LAW THAT ARE CURRENTLY ENJOYED
SATISFY
LARGER FIRMS OF HONG KONG SOLICITORS,
SAID MR MARTIN
THE
FIRMS LAW то
WHO PRACTISE
BY SOME OF THE
..
HE SAID.
THERE HAD
ALSO BEEN
THE LOWER
ETHICAL
SUGGESTIONS
THAT THE
STANDARDS
OF THE
PROPOSALS WOULD, IN SOME DAY,
PROFESSION IN HONG KONG.
AND I MUST STRESS WILL NEED ΤΟ THE
-
"FAR FROM BEING THE CASE, FOREIGN LAWYERS THAT WE ARE NOT TALKING ONLY ABOUT AMERICAN LAWYERS FOLLOW HONG KONG ETHICAL STANDARDS WHICH WILL BE ENFORCED THROUGH LAW SOCIETY'S POWERS OF DISCIPLINE,
HE SAID.
MR MARTIN SAID IT WAS GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSALS AS SIMPLY WIDER ISSUES WERE INVOLVED.
EASY TO
THE REGARD ONE BETWEEN
LAWYERS
DEBATE OVER THE BUT IN FACT
HONG INTEREST, PUBLIC "WE MUST NOT LOSE SIGHT OF THE. POSITION AS A MAJOR AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL AND THE DEVELOPING INTERNATIONALISATION OF HONG KONG.
KONG'S CENTRE
..
'LAWYERS IN HONG KONG HAVE A VERY IMPORTANT THIS BUT IT IS THE ROLE OF PROFESSIONAL INDUSTRY," HE SAID.
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