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The legal profession in Hong Kong consists of two branches: solicitors and barristers. An intending solicitor who has completed the PCLL will be required to complete satisfactorily a period of employment as a trainee solicitor (two years) in order to be eligible for admission to practice in Hong Kong as a solicitor. An intending barrister who has completed the PCLL will be Call to the bar|called to the Bar (admitted as a barrister) of Hong Kong after having undertaken 6 months of pupillage (training) and will have limited rights of audience (limited practice). After another 6 months of pupillage (which make it a total of 12 months of pupillage), he or she will be eligible to commence full practice. To be eligible for admission to the courses leading to the PCLL, an applicant must have completed their Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) or equivalent legal studies either in Hong Kong or other common law jurisdictions, or have passed the Common Professional Examinations (CPE or CPEC) of Hong Kong or of England and Wales. The degree or qualification must be in common law, and should include passes in six law subjects, including the following (or subjects recognised as their equivalents): (1) Constitutional Law; (2) Contract Law; (3) Criminal Law; (4) Property Law; (5) Tort Law; and (6) Law of Trusts (or Equity or Remedies). Passes in Business Associations (or Company Law) and Evidence are also required. In addition to all admission requirements, all students applying for PCLL must take an English examination known as IELTS not more than two years before applying. The PCLL is currently offered by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the City University of Hong Kong (CityU). The Chinese University of Hong Kong|Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) may offer this in the near future, with their new LL.B. programme starting in the academic year of 2006-2007. The PCLL in HKU for the 2005-2006 academic year will cost HK$95,000.00 (US$12,180.00 approximately) for all non-government-subsidised full-time students. Only certain local Hong Kong law students can meet the prerequisites required for the discounted, government-funded fee of HK$42,100.00 (US$5,400.00 approximately) (2005-6 academic year). Students wishing to take the two-year part-time course at HKU will have to pay HK$110,000.00 to complete the programme (US$14,100.00 approximately) (2005-7 academic years).
The PCLL in CityU for the 2005-6 academic year will cost HK$108,000.00 (US$13,850.00) (non-government-funded), or at least HK$60,000.00 (US$7,700.00) (non-local students), or $42,100.00 (US$5,400.00) (government-funded local students). For the PCLL starting in the academic year 2005, the deadline for HKU's and CityU's was on Apr 30, 2005. The HKU intake is currently slightly under 300 students per year (and decreasing), with approximately 70-80 of those from its own LL.B. programme. Others come from universities in other common law jurisdictions, particularly the United Kingdom and Australia. The minimum academic level required for acceptance into this programme is being raised with each intake. Previously, all HKU LLB graduates would be admitted into its PCLL programme; now, just over two-thirds are admitted (that means a decent 2:2 honours in the LLB). Non-HKU-LLB students usually require a 2:1 honours. The CityU PCLL programme's intake is substantially less, standing at about one hundred this year. For HKU PCLL, there are five compulsory courses which all students must take, they are Advocacy, Civil and Criminal Procedure, Conveyancing and Probate Practice, Commercial Law and Practice, and Professional Practice. Students must choose one of two streams: the commercial, probate and corporate practice stream (for intending solicitors) or the litigation stream (for intending barristers and litigation solicitors). Need more information?<br> HKU PCLL: http://www.pcll.hk/ <br> CityU PCLL: http://www.cityu.edu.hk/cityu/dpt-acad/slw.htm/ Category:CityU Category:Law degrees Category:Hong Kong law Category:University of Hong Kong This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Postgraduate Certificate in Laws".
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