Around 60 have returned home to Portugal or taken up other work, cutting number of registered lawyers to just over 440, says association president Vong Hin Fai.
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The central government has started a three-year pilot programme to enable law practitioners from Hong Kong and Macao to practice law in nine cities of Guangdong province.
The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) adopted a decision to allow law practitioners in Hong Kong and practising lawyers in Macao to qualify and work as lawyers in nine cities of Guangdong province on a trial basis.
Ex-chief prosecutor Ho Chio Meng’s defence lawyer Leong Weng Pun and his team resigned on Wednesday before the court’s afternoon session began. Ho faces over 1,500 charges including aggravated fraud, leadership of a criminal organisation, abuse of power, and money laundering. The morning session of the trial at the Court of Final Appeal (TUI) in […]
