TNAG-1922-FCO40-2727-Future-of-the-judiciary-in-Hong-Kong-1989 — Page 37

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Form of Consultative Document

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This

This paper is divided into 5 Chapters. Chapter introduces the paper and Chapter 2 sets out the background.

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Chapter 3 sets out the details of amendments to the Legal Practitioners Ordinance necessary to give effect to the proposal.

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It will be necessary for the Chief Justice to make rules relating to the admission of foreign lawyers, as he has done in the case of the admission of Hong Kong solicitors, and for the granting of permission to foreign law firms. The precise form of these rules will need to be Chapter worked out in consultation with the Chief Justice.

4 sets out matters with which these rules could deal.

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The Council of the Law Society has power under section 73 of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance to make rules relating to practice. Under this power the Council has made the Accountants' Report Rules, the Disciplinary Committee Proceedings Rules, the Solicitors' Accounts Rules, the Solicitors' Practice Rules, the Articled Clerks Rules, the Practising Certificate (Solicitors) Rules and Upon the the Solicitors (Professional Indemnity) Rules. enactment of a Bill to give effect to the proposal there will be a need for the Council to make such consequential amendments to these rules as it considers appropriate and

It may be difficult to necessary and to make new rules. see how the proposal will work in practice without seeing the details of its implementation.

Chapter 5 sets out

matters which might possibly be included in new rules designed to control the practice of foreign law and Hong Kong law in foreign law firms.

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