Hong Kong Bar Association

18 Feb 2013

Being a lawyer was never his childhood dream - he would rather have been an engineer. But Paul Shieh Wing-tai became a top barrister and senior counsel and now leads the 1,100-member Bar...

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Letters to the Editor, February 1, 2013

1 Feb 2013

Legco should back property intervention

The chief executive announced various measures in his policy address to the Legislative Council, aimed at increasing subsidised housing and also at...

3:09AM

Paul Shieh chosen to lead Hong Kong Bar Association

18 Jan 2013

Bar Association vice-chairman Paul Shieh Wing-tai SC will take the helm of the 1,000-member professional body from today after being elected as the new leader yesterday.

5:06AM

Hong Kong's legal profession has undeserved monopoly

20 Oct 2012

Hong Kong's two legal practitioners' guilds have each issued a press release in response to former justice minister Elsie Leung Oi-sie' s recent criticism of the city's legal profession. The press...

1:29AM

By-election ban would curb right to vote, Bar says

19 Feb 2012

The Hong Kong Bar Association says it is not convinced by the government's arguments to stop lawmakers who resign mid-term from standing in by-elections for six months.

It argues...

7:46AM

Solicitors in high courts by end of year

31 Jan 2012

Solicitors with the right experience or qualifications may represent clients in the high courts - long the exclusive domain of barristers - by the end of this year.

6:22AM

Opinion

Tom Holland

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

3:33AM

Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

3:35AM

Scrapping polls far from 'fair', the Bar says

The Bar has accused the government of steering the public towards its favoured means of avoiding what it sees as abuse of Legislative Council by-elections: scrapping them.

6:20PM

Piecemeal changes to legal aid system won't do

Hong Kong has good reason to pride itself on its rule of law and administration of justice. Judgments from our top courts are written with impressive clarity and are considered and respected by...

3:52PM

Events diary

Today, HK: Australian Chamber of Commerce lunchtime seminar: 'Raise the bar - Getting the best from your people'. CPA Australia.

Canadian Chamber of Commerce seminar: 'Effective...

7:56AM

Bar Association gives warning

It says the security bill has serious defects and lacks broad consensus

12:34AM

Lawful assembly

The Hong Kong Bar Association held the 1998 Bar Scholarship Presentation ceremony at the Conrad and invited more than 100 legal eagles and prominent guests to the tea reception.

The...

5:56PM

Not contacted

IN the section on the Budget appearing in the South China Morning Post, on March 2, under the headline, 'Evasion', it was reported that greater auditing of the self-employed from hawker to...

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