Hong Kong Regulations

SOLICITORS (GROUP PRACTICE) RULES - SECT 4

General provisions

(1) A member of a group practice shall not-

   (a)  conduct his or its business or any part of his or its business; or

   (b)  hold himself or itself out as conducting his or its business or any
        part of his or its business, from an address other than the address
        from which he or it and the other member or members of the
        group practice conduct their businesses for the purpose of
        section 3(1).

(2) A solicitor who practises within a group practice shall not practise or
hold himself out as practising other than within the group  practice.

(3) A member of a group practice shall not employ or engage as a consultant,
or continue to employ or engage as a consultant, any solicitor whom he knows
to be otherwise practising within the group practice

(whether as an employee of or consultant to any other member or in any other
capacity).

(4) For the avoidance of doubt, only a solicitor or firm that is conducting
his or its business as a member of a group practice may be a party to the
group practice agreement in relation to that group practice.