The Professional Conduct of Lawyers in Hong Kong

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The Professional Conduct of Lawyers in Hong Kong is the complete and unparalleled guide to solicitors’ and barristers’ practice in HK. This authoritative and oft-cited text includes the Hong Kong Solicitor’s Guide to Professional Conduct that came into effect on 1 January 2014.

This indispensable title covers the entire scope of a practising lawyer’s work. Understand your areas of liability and your duties under the relevant guides, codes and practice directions, the requirements of client confidentiality and the extent of professional privilege. Avoid conflicts of interests and duties. Enhance your efficiency through proper office management, understand the available methods of promoting your practice and obtaining business, appropriately constructing the retainer and securing remuneration.

Analysis extends from the basics of the Hong Kong legal profession and admission to practice right through to explanations of the sources of legal and ethical duties and the practice and standards of other jurisdictions.

This work belongs in every practising lawyer’s library.

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1. Introduction to the legal profession in Hong Kong
2. The sources of lawyers’ legal and ethical duties
3. Admission to Practice
4. The nature of the solicitor’s practice and the solicitor’s management of his office
5. Practice promotion and the obtaining of business
6. The Retainer
7. Remuneration
8. Confidentiality and legal professional privilege
9. Conflicts of interests and duties
10. Admission to practice
11. The organisation of chambers
12. Counsel’s Relationship with instructing solicitor: take instructions and the scope of counsel’s authority
13. Negotiation and recovery of fees
14. The duties of the barrister to the public and to his profession
15. Practice promotion, advertising and publicity
16. The barrister’s duty to the lay client and opposing parties
17. The advocate’s conduct before trial and in court
Michael Wolkinson, BA, LLB (Cantab); Barristerof the Inner Temple; Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong

Michael Sandor, LLB (Melb), LLM (Lond); Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria; Visiting Associate Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong