Hong Kong Regulations

PRISON RULES - RULE 52

Visits by legal adviser

(1) Reasonable facilities shall be allowed for the legal adviser of a prisoner
who is party to legal proceedings, civil or criminal, to interview the
prisoner with reference to those proceedings in the sight but not in the
hearing of an officer of the Correctional Services Department. (L.N. 30 of
1982)

(2) The legal adviser of a prisoner may, with the permission of the
Commissioner, interview the prisoner with reference to any other legal
business in the sight and hearing of an officer of the Correctional Services
Department. (L.N. 30 of 1982)

(3) At such interviews the legal adviser may be accompanied by his clerk or
interpreter.

(4) If written authority from his principal is produced, the clerk or
interpreter to a legal adviser may for the purposes stated in paragraphs (1)
and (2) interview the prisoner unaccompanied by his principal.