Hong Kong Regulations

TRAINEE SOLICITORS RULES - RULE 13

New trainee solicitor contracts

(1) Subject to rules 6 and 8, if before the expiration of a trainee  solicitor
contract-

   (a)  the principal ceases to be eligible to employ a trainee  solicitor or
        to act as a principal under a trainee solicitor contract;

   (b)  the principal dies;

   (c)  the trainee solicitor contract is terminated by mutual consent; or

   (d)  the trainee solicitor contract is terminated by the Court or the
        Council, the trainee solicitor may enter into a new trainee solicitor
        contract with another principal.

(2) Where a trainee solicitor contract has been discharged by the Council
under section 22 of the Ordinance, employment of the trainee  solicitor under
a new trainee solicitor contract is only effective employment as a
trainee solicitor if it is approved in writing by the Society.

(3) Subject to rules 6 and 8 if, on the expiration of a trainee  solicitor
contract, a trainee solicitor cannot satisfy the Society that he has been duly
employed as a trainee solicitor for the whole of the period of the
trainee solicitor contract he may enter into a new trainee  solicitor contract
with the same or another principal for such period as will enable him to
complete the requisite period of employment as a trainee solicitor. (L.N. 182
of 1994)