### Legal Practitioners Ordinance 《法律執業者條例》

57. Remuneration of a solicitor who is a mortgagee
(1) If a mortgage is made to a solicitor, either alone or jointly with any other person, he, or the firm of which he is a member, shall be entitled to recover from the mortgagor in respect of all business transacted and acts done by him or them in negotiating the loan, deducing and investigating the title to the property, and preparing and completing the mortgage, such usual costs as he or they would have been entitled to receive if the mortgage had been made to a person who was not a solicitor and that person had retained and employed him or them to transact that business and do those acts. 
(2) If, whether before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, a mortgage has been made to, or has become vested by transfer or transmission in, a solicitor, either alone or jointly with any other person, and if any business is transacted or acts done by that solicitor, or by the firm of which he is a member, in relation to that mortgage, or the security thereby created or the property comprised thereunder, then he or they shall be entitled to recover from the person on whose behalf the business was transacted or the acts were done, and to charge against the security, such usual costs as he or they would have been entitled to receive if the mortgage had been made to and had remained vested in a person who was not a solicitor and that person had retained and employed him or them to transact that business and do those acts. (Amended L.N. 307 of 1998)
(3) In this section, mortgage (按揭) includes any charge on any property for securing money or money’s worth. 
[cf. 1957 c. 27 s. 58 U.K.]

58. Power to make agreements

A solicitor may make with his client an agreement in writing as to his remuneration, in respect of any contentious business done or to be done by the solicitor for the client, which provides that the solicitor shall be remunerated either by a gross sum or by salary, or otherwise, and at either a greater or a less rate than that at which he would otherwise have been entitled to be remunerated. 
[cf. 1957 c. 27 s. 59 U.K.]

### Legal Practitioners Ordinance 《法律執業者條例》

59. Miscellaneous provisions
(1) An agreement such as is referred to in section 58—
(a) shall not affect the amount of, or any rights or remedies for the recovery of, any costs payable by the client to, or to the client by, any person other than the solicitor, and that person may, unless he has otherwise agreed, require any such costs to be taxed according to the rules for the time being in force for the taxation thereof: 
Provided that the client shall not be entitled to recover from any other person under any order for the payment of any costs to which the agreement relates more than the amount payable by him to his solicitor in respect thereof under the agreement;
(b) shall be deemed to exclude any claim by the solicitor in respect of the business to which it relates other than—
(i) a claim for the agreed costs; or 
(ii) a claim for such costs as are expressly excepted therefrom. 
(2) A provision in any such agreement that the solicitor shall not be liable for negligence, or that he shall be relieved from any responsibility to which he would otherwise be subject as a solicitor, shall be void. 
[cf. 1957 c. 27 s. 60 U.K.]

### Legal Practitioners Ordinance 《法律執業者條例》

63. Form of bill of costs for contentious business
Where the remuneration of a solicitor in respect of contentious business done by him is not the subject of such an agreement as is mentioned in section 58, the solicitor’s bill of costs may at the option of the solicitor either contain detailed items or be for a gross sum: 
Provided that—
(a) at any time before service upon him of a writ or other originating process for the recovery of costs included in a gross sum bill and before the expiration of 3 months from the date of the delivery to him of the bill, the party chargeable therewith may require the solicitor to deliver to him in lieu thereof a bill containing detailed items, and the gross sum bill shall thereupon be of no effect; 
(b) where an action is commenced on a gross sum bill, the court shall, if so requested by the party chargeable therewith before the expiration of 1 month from the service on that party of the writ or other originating process, order that the bill shall be taxed; 
(c) if a gross sum bill is referred to taxation, whether under this section or otherwise, nothing in this section shall prejudice any rules of court with respect to taxation, and the solicitor shall furnish the taxing officer with such details of any of the costs covered by the bill as the taxing officer may require. 
[cf. 1957 c. 27 s. 64 U.K.]

### Legal Practitioners Ordinance 《法律執業者條例》

64. General provisions as to remuneration
(1) Nothing in section 58, 59, 60, 61 or 62 shall give validity to—
(a) any purchase by a solicitor of the interest, or any part of the interest, of his client in any action, suit or other contentious proceeding; or 
(b) any agreement—
(i) by which a solicitor retained or employed to prosecute any action, suit or other contentious proceeding stipulates for payment only in the event of success in that action, suit or proceeding; and 
(ii) that is not an ORFS agreement for arbitration within the meaning of Part 10B of the Arbitration Ordinance (Cap. 609); or (Replaced 6 of 2022 s. 6)
(c) any disposition, contract, settlement, conveyance, delivery, dealing or transfer which is under the law relating to bankruptcy invalid against a trustee or creditor in any bankruptcy or voluntary arrangement with creditors within the meaning of the Bankruptcy Ordinance (Cap. 6). (Amended 27 of 1998 s. 7) 
(2) A solicitor may take security from his client for his costs to be ascertained by taxation or otherwise. 
(3) Subject to the provisions of any rules of court, upon every taxation of costs with respect to any contentious business, the taxing officer may—
(a) allow interest at such rate and from such time as he thinks just on moneys disbursed by the solicitor for the client, and on moneys of the client in the hands of, and improperly retained by, the solicitor; 
(b) in determining the remuneration of the solicitor, have regard to the skill, labour and responsibility involved in the business done by him, the general complexity of the matter and the amount or value of the matter in issue. 
[cf. 1957 c. 27 s. 65 U.K.]

### Legal Practitioners Ordinance 《法律執業者條例》

65. Power of Court to order delivery of bill, etc.
(1) The jurisdiction of the Court to make orders for the delivery by a solicitor of a bill of costs and for the delivery up of, or otherwise in relation to, any deeds, documents or papers in his possession, custody or power is hereby declared to extend to cases in which no business has been done by him in the Court. 
(2) If a mortgage has been made to, or has become vested by transfer or transmission in, a solicitor, either alone or jointly with any other person, and any business is transacted or acts are done by that solicitor, or by the firm of which he is a member, in relation to that mortgage or the security thereby created or the property comprised thereunder, then he or they shall be entitled to recover from the person on whose behalf the business was transacted or the acts were done, and to charge against the security, such usual costs as he or they would have been entitled to receive if the mortgage had been made to and had remained vested in a person who was not a solicitor and that person had retained and employed him or them to transact that business and do those acts. 
(3) In this section and in sections 66, 67 and 68, solicitor (律師) includes the executors, administrators and assignees of the solicitor in question. 
[cf. 1957 c. 27 s. 67 U.K.]