Hong Kong Regulations

TRAINEE SOLICITORS RULES - RULE 9A

Employment prior to entering into a trainee solicitor contract

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1)-(2) (Repealed L.N. 171 of 1999)

(3) A trainee solicitor may apply for approval from the Society that a period
of employment in Hong Kong prior to entering into a trainee  solicitor
contract in Hong Kong is relevant work experience and where he does so the
Society may reduce the period of the trainee solicitor contract by 1 month
when there is a minimum total of 3 years of relevant work experience, with an
additional 1 month reduction for every additional year of relevant work
experience, but the period of reduction shall not exceed 6 months. (L.N. 171
of 1999)

(4) The Society shall not consider work experience gained prior to entering
into a trainee solicitor contract in Hong Kong as relevant for the purposes of
paragraph (3) unless it is satisfied that-

   (a)  the work experience gained is equivalent to the experience gained
        under a trainee solicitor contract; and

   (b)  the work experience is gained within the 10 years immediately prior to
        the date of the trainee solicitor contract.

(5) An application under paragraph (3) shall be-

   (a)  in a form approved by the Society completed by the trainee  solicitor;

   (b)  accompanied by a reference from the person who previously employed him
        specifying the dates of commencement and termination of the employment
        and the duties undertaken; and

   (c)  accompanied by the prescribed fee. (L.N. 232 of 1994)