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TO:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR ALEC DOUGLAS-HOME, K.T., P.C., D.L., M.P., SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS.

18/2);

The Humble Petition of the members of the Committee

of the Hong Kong Bar Association (hereinafter referred to 'The Committee') respectfully sheweth as follows:-

1.

Your Petitioners are the members of the Committee

as

of the Hong Kong Bar Association the same being the executive

Your Petitioners will hereinafter body of the Association.

be referred to as "The Committee".

2.

divided into barristers and solicitors.

The legal profession in the Colony of Hong Kong is All the practising

barristers in the Colony are members of the Hong Kong Bar

Association.

3.

The Association is constituted to uphold the integrity

and dignity of the Bar in Hong Kong and has, under Legal Practitioners Ordinance, Cap. 159, rights and obligations în relation to the admission and discipline of barristers in the

Colony.

4.

The practising Bar in Hong Kong numbers 48, of whom 5 At present, the only are Her Majesty's Counsel for Hong Kong. persons entitled to practise at the Hong Kong Bar are persons who have been called to the Bar in England (or Northern Ireland, or admitted as Advocates in Scotland).

Accordingly all the

practising barristers in Hong Kong (with one exception) are

members of the English Bar.

5.

The composition of the practising Bar in Hong Kong is

near future. In April 1969 a Department likely to change in the of Law was established at the University of Hong Kong.

The

first students, admitted to the Department in September 1969, will graduate with the degree of L1. B. in 1972.

Although the

arrangements for the further training of the law graduates to

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