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Common Law principles and legal practice in the context of undertake a planned review of its mandatory Risk
Vietnamese Civil Law. This course is to be developed from the Management Education (RME) programme.
College’s non-award International Legal English and The Society’s mandatory RME programme applies to Hong
Professional Sills (ILEPS) and the programme is designed to solicitors, trainee solicitors and to registered foreign lawyers
become the initial LLM (Applied Law) subject - in Vietnamese practising in Hong Kong. It is comprised of initial core courses
legal practice—Lawyer’s Skills (Vietnam) that is scheduled to for principals, non-principals, trainees and registered foreign
be developed in 2018. ▄▌ lawyers followed by a series of electives, with an ongoing
annual requirement to undertake 3 hours of RME electives
An EOI was submitted to the Law Society on 4 October 2017
and remains under consideration. ▄▌

Law Society practice management course

he Law Society of Hong Kong has decided that it will now
T introduce its COL-produced legal practice management LLM (Applied Law) in Common Law Practice
course as an elective within this mandatory Risk Management he College’s new LLM (Applied Law) in Common law
Education (RME) programme Risk Management Education
(RME) programme - rather than introduce it (as initially T Practice (New Zealand) began with seven subjects in
planned) as a mandatory CPD subject. being offered in the February 2018 intake.
This new jurisdictional
Winning the contract to develop this practice management
course (and accompanying PowerPoint, with presenter’s stream in the College’s
notes) was COL Asia’s first success in securing paid work in LLM (Applied Law)
Asia and the work was extended to include: programme builds upon
the existing COLNZ New
 Developing checkboxes for Zealand Law and Practice
starting, running and exiting a Examination (NZLPE)
Hong Kong legal practice for preparation course for
inclusion as appendices to the foreign lawyers. The new
practice management course LLM programme will allow
manual. foreign lawyers to
 Assisting with the recruitment simultaneously undertake
and training of course trainers a LLM in Common law
and delivering the first course - Practice (based on New
sometime in 2018. Zealand) and prepare for
the six NZLPE exams run
 Providing an annual course by the New Zealand
update service.
Council of Legal
The College has also offered to Education (NZCLE).
the Law Society to trail online Click to view the 2018 Master of Laws (Applied Law) in
delivery of the new course - which was developed as a half- Common Law Practice (New Zealand) handbook. ▄▌
day, face-to-face course, with a substantial manual. The
manual is available online as a flipbook. ▄▌
COMMON LAW PRACTICE SUBJECTS
Six of the seven LLM subjects in the Common Law Practice
(New Zealand) stream are based on the 6-part New Zealand
Law and Practice Examination (NZLPE) for foreign lawyers:
 NZLP1: Administrative Law Practice (New Zealand)
 NZLP2: Commercial Law Practice (New Zealand)
 NZLP3: Criminal Law Practice (New Zealand)
 NZLP4: Ethics & Professional Practice (New Zealand)
 NZLP5: Personal Injury & Torts Practice
 NZLP6: Property Law Practice (New Zealand)
 NZLP7: Trusts, Wills & Estates Practice (New Zealand)
Course manual and checkboxes available online as a flipbook.  NZLP00 Capstone (New Zealand)

 NZLP15 Major Project (New Zealand)
Note: NZLP4: Ethics and Professional Practice (New Zealand)
Risk management education review
was approved by the New Zealand Council of Legal Education in
Following the successful completion of a new Legal Practice November 2017 as an approved Legal Ethics course that is a
Management course the Law Society of Hong Kong has asked mandatory admission requirement for New Zealand lawyers - both
the College to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) to local and foreign.

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