Foreign Lawyer Provisions in Hong Kong and the Republic of China on Taiwan

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FOREIGN LAWYER PROVISIONS IN HONG KONG AND THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA ON TAIWAN Darryl D. Chiangt TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. H ong Kong A . Introduction B. The Pre-1995 System for Regulating Foreign Lawyers in Hong Kong C. The 1994 Amendments to the Legal Practitioners Ordinance and the Regulations for the Admission and Practice of Foreign Lawyers D. Hong Kong's Reforms in Perspective III. The Republic of China on Taiwan A. Foreign Law Firms in Taiwan Before 1992 ....... B. Tension with the Local Bar C. The Taipei Bar Association's Proposed Foreign Lawyers Law and Proposed Amendments to the Lawyer's Code of Ethics D. The Expatriate Community's Opposition to the Draft Foreign Lawyers Law E. The 1992 Amended Lawyers Law and Regulations Governing Approval and Control of Employment of Foreign Nationals by Lawyers ... t Associate, Latham & Watkins (San Francisco). Law Clerk to Honorable Judith N. Keep, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, 1994-95. A.B. Princeton University, 1990; J.D. Harvard Law School, 1994. Special thanks to Professor William P. Alford, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law and Di- rector of the East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School; Jonothan Abbott and Allan Roger of the Hong Kong Attorney General's Chambers; Albert P.W. Li, Clerk to the Bills Committee to Study the Legal Practitioners (Amend- ment) Bill 1993-94; Neill T. Macpherson of Deacons (Hong Kong); Marcus J. Woo, Julie Chu, and Nicholas V. Chen of Perkins Coie (Taipei); Remington Huang and Grace Shao of Baker & McKenzie (Taipei); Jamie C.M. Huang and Susan C.C. Huang of Huang & Partners (Taipei); and Long Chu of the Singapore Trade Devel- opment Board.