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Practice Management Course | Checklist 1
Starting a Practice

9. INSURANCE
• Have you advised Essar Insurance Services Limited of the commencement
of the practice?
• Have you submitted an Application for Indemnity [Please add link to the
Application for Indemnity Form for new firms (link not provided)] for
commencing a new practice and payment of the contribution before the
commencement date of a new practice?
• Have you obtained from Essar Insurance Services Limited a certified true
copy of the Certificate of Insurance and their receipt for payment of the
contribution required by the Solicitors' (Professional Indemnity) Rules?
10. ACCOUNTING
Have you decided on the firm's accounting period for the purpose of rule 8 of
Chapter 2 - Accountant's Report Rules?
Read Chapter 15 - Solicitors' Accounts Rules
Read Manual on Solicitor’s Accounting
11. RISK MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
Have you read and understood your obligations regarding mandatory Risk
Management Education (RME) as a principal and as an employer?
• Read information about the Society’s Mandatory RME Programme
• Read information about the Society’s Mandatory RME Requirement
• Read the Legal Practitioners (Risk Management Education) Rules
12. MARKETING
Have you checked your firms’ proposed marketing for compliance with the
Solicitors’ Practice Promotion Code?
• Read Solicitors' Practice Promotion Code (Chapter 25, Vol. 2, The
Hong Kong Solicitors' Guide to Professional Conduct)
13. LEGAL VISITS BY UNQUALIFIED STAFF (if applicable)
Do you need to complete the form for Legal Visits by Solicitors' Employees to
Persons in Custody? If yes, download the form below:
Form: Legal Visits by Solicitors’ Employees to Persons in Custody
14. SERVICE COMPANY (if applicable)
Does the firm intend to engage a service company to provide staff for the
firm? If yes, you will need to have the following details regarding the service
company:
• Company Name
• Address
• Address of the Registered Office
• Telephone No.
• Fax No.
• DX No.
• Business Registration No.
• Company Directors – Full name (English and Chinese, if applicable), and
whether each director is a Solicitor.
• Company employees:
o Full Name (English & Chinese, if applicable)
o ID Card/Passport No.
o Chinese Commercial Code No.
o Date of birth
o Position
o Date of commencing employment in position
15. LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP (if applicable)
Is the firm a limited liability partnership? If yes,
• Have you complied with the insurance requirement in section 7AD of
the Legal Practitioners Ordinance Cap. 159 and sections 3 and 4
of the Limited Liability Partnerships (Top-up Insurance) Rules
(Cap 159, sub leg AL)?

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