Losing parties in lawsuits may soon have to pay more, after the Law Society proposed raising solicitors' hourly rates by 40 to 68 per cent, for the purposes of calculating repayment of legal costs...
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From accountants to doctors, most professions in Hong Kong have had mandatory continuing education for at least 10 years.
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The Law Society and the Bar Association have lambasted Hong Kong's system of using three different tests to screen foreigners seeking sanctuary, saying a unified approach would work better. In...
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The legal profession has given the cold shoulder to a government scheme under which volunteer lawyers would help litigants pursue civil cases on their own.
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A suggestion to shift meetings of the Legislative Council's justice and legal services panel to Friday mornings has drawn strong criticism from the Bar Association and Law Society, with the former...
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A row over former justice secretary Elsie Leung Oi-sie's recent criticism of the legal profession intensified yesterday when she hit back at her critics, saying she was simply exercising her right...
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Former justice secretary Elsie Leung Oi-sie defended her criticism of Hong Kong’s judiciary as “free speech”, as an argument with two legal bodies continued on Friday.
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An overhaul of the examination system that allows law graduates to become qualified lawyers is being considered by the head of the Law Society.
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Hong Kong's solicitors yesterday launched an a website offering free legal advice to people in need.
More than 90 law firms have signed up to offer services on the Law Society's...
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After seven years of 'appalling' pass rates, the Law Society has called on Beijing to do away with the exam Hong Kong lawyers must take to practice law on the mainland.
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