The
GUIDELINES
Part A
requirements for admission in the jurisdictions listed below are deemed to be the equivalent of a LL.B. degree granted by a tertiary institution Applications jurisdictions
assessed
in
Hong
by reference
Kong. to admission in other will be evaluated either
on a case by case basis upon the application of an individual applicant or upon the application of a jurisdiction itself. these Guidelines will be revised from time to time.
Part A of
Australian States and Territories Canadian
(excluding
Provinces and Territories
Quebec)
England and Wales
Ireland
New Zealand
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Singapore U.S.A.
(but only if a LL.B. or J.D. has been obtained from an ABA approved law school or member of the AALS)
Zimbabwe
Part B
The jurisdictions listed below have been grouped for the purposes of identifying
the be
particular passed
parts of must
the is
by applicants whose based upon the completion of professional and admission in one
of these parts of the Transfer Test
Transfer
Test which
application training
Those
subject to a standing exemption.
the
jurisdictions. not so identified are All other exemptions from Part B of these
Test will be on a case by case basis. Guidelines will be revised from time to time.
1.
Solicitors (or the equivalent) jurisdictions
who
in the
following
wish to be admitted as solicitors in Hong Kong are automatically exempted from all parts of the Transfer Test if examinations required
they have passed the qualifying for admission as solicitors (or the equivalent) in those jurisdictions and completed
clerkship, pupillage
whatever
period
apprenticeship
which
concerned.
of
is required
or
in the jurisdiction
I
England and Wales Northern Ireland Scotland
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