Face To Face With The Law Society Roll Of Honour Inductee 2022, Albert H.Y. Chen GBS, SBS, JP (HK Lawyer)

"Face To Face With The Law Society Roll Of Honour Inductees 2022, Albert H.Y. Chen GBS, SBS, JP and Huen Wong SBS, BBS, JP"

in Hong Kong Lawyer, November 2022 issue

The Roll of Honour was established to give credit to legal professionals, who have, in the opinion of The Law Society’s Council, given such distinguished service to The Law Society or its Council, the development of the legal profession in Hong Kong or the practice of law, that their contribution warrants such recognition by The Law Society.

This year, two notable members of the legal community were admitted to the Roll of Honour – Huen Wong and Albert H.Y. Chen. In this cover feature, we get a closer look at their professional journey, experiences, inspirations, and future goals.

1. What does making it to the Roll of Honour of The Law Society of Hong Kong mean to you? Why is it significant for you?

AC: I was admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 1984 after I completed my articled clerkship at the firm Johnson Stokes & Master (JSM). Most of my classmates in the law school of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have become solicitors. And some of my best friends are solicitors. It is therefore the greatest honour for me to be admitted to The Law Society’s Roll of Honour, and to be in the company of some of the most distinguished solicitors in Hong Kong’s legal history.

2. Which areas or contributions of your work are you most proud of? Why?

AC: I have worked as a legal academic at HKU since 1984. I have tried my best to be a teacher of Hong Kong’s public law, to be a scholar of the legal systems and legal developments in Hong Kong and Mainland China, and to contribute to the management of the law school and the development of legal education in Hong Kong.

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New Book by Gary Meggitt: Wilkinson's Professional Conduct of Lawyers in Hong Kong – Desk Edition 2022 (LexisNexis)

"Wilkinson's Professional Conduct of Lawyers in Hong Kong – Desk Edition 2022 (Student)"
Gary Meggitt
LexisNexis

Published in September, 2022

964 pp.

Book Description: Wilkinson's Professional Conduct of Lawyers in Hong Kong - Desk Edition 2022 continues to incorporate the best of its previous editions, enhanced by recent developments introduced by legislation, Law Society Circulars, Bar Circulars, Law Society and Judiciary Practice Directions and numerous cases from many relevant jurisdictions. This new edition contains much new material, the most significant developments include annotations on admission to practice; confidentiality and legal professional privilege; ; competence;, undertakings; and disciplinary proceedings. This title will prove indispensable to law students studying the PCLL and Overseas Lawyers Qualification Examination candidates.

Johannes Chan on the Law Society's Power to Introduce a Common Entrance Examination (HKLJ) (full text)

"The Law Society's Power to Introduce a Common Entrance Examination"
Johannes Chan
Hong Kong Law Journal
2018, Vol. 48, Part 1, pp. 1-10

Introduction: Legal education in Hong Kong can be broadly divided into three stages: (1) an academic stage involving the completion of a law degree at a university or the equivalent; (2) a vocational stage involving the study of a one-year course of Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (PCLL) at one of the law schools in Hong Kong, the course focusing on legal skills that are required for practice and aiming at preparing students for a transfer from the academic stage to legal practice; and (3) a professional stage where students will undergo a one-year pupillage with a barrister or a two-year traineeship with a solicitors firm before admission to full practice. The PCLL is a statutory qualification to legal practice. For historical reasons, it is administered by the law schools, with strong participation of the two professional bodies. In recent years, the Law Society has put forward a controversial proposal to introduce a Common Entrance Examination after the completion of the PCLL as an additional hurdle to admission to the solicitors' branch of the legal profession. The proposal met with strong opposition from all stakeholders, including the Bar Association. The consultants on legal education appointed by the Standing Committee on Legal Education, the statutory body overseeing legal education, recently commented in their interim report that there was no sufficient or convincing justification for the introduction of the Common Entrance Examination. One aspect of the controversy is whether the Law Society has the power to introduce such an examination...  Click here to download the full comment.