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Practice Management Course | Checklist 1
Starting a Practice

• Have you completed and signed the Declaration of Top-Up Insurance
Cover Form LP-1 (included with Form LP-3)
16. LAW SOCIETY LEXIS
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17. GROUP PRACTICE
Will you be operating as part of a Group Practice?
Note: The Solicitors (Group Practice) Rules apply if you conduct your business
(or any part of your businesses) from the same address, separately but in
mutual co-operation. It also applies if you operate from the same address as
another practice.
If yes, read:
Chapter 28 - Solicitors (Group Practice) Rules
You will need to:
• Establish a limited liability group practice management company
• Report to the Society within 14 days of joining a group practice on the
matters required in rule 8
• Furnish a Declaration regarding:
o Date of the agreement
o Commencement date of the agreement
o Parties to the agreement
• Notify the Society in writing of:
o Name of the group practice as approved by the Council
o Address of the group practice together with its telephone, fax, telex
and DX numbers, where appropriate;
o Names of the members of the group practice;
o Date on which each member began to conduct business as a member
of the group practice
o Name of the management company, the address of its registered office,
its registration number under the Companies Ordinance and its
registration number under the Business Registration Ordinance
o Names of the directors and shareholders of the management company
o Address of the management company together with its telephone, fax,
telex and DX numbers, where appropriate
o Details of the management company’s employees (whether part-time
or full-time, whether remunerated or otherwise and whether or not
performing duties as a staff member of the group practice):
 Name
 Number of the identity card issued under the Registration of
Persons Ordinance and the Chinese commercial code appearing on
that identity card,
 Date of birth,
 Position in the management company
 Date on which employment began
Download Information on Solicitors' Group Practice
Download Manual for setting up a group practice
18. SOLE PRACTITIONER – TESTAMENTARY PROVISION
• Will you be commencing a practice as a sole practitioner?
• Will you hold an unconditional practising certificate?
If yes, you will have to:
• Have you executed a testamentary provision to provide for the
management of your practice after your death, pending its disposal or
cessation? [Note: The manager must hold an unconditional practising

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