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

50B. Offences in relation to foreign lawyers, foreign firms and Associations
(1) A person who offers his services to the public as a practitioner of foreign law commits an offence unless he is a solicitor who satisfies all the requirements set forth in section 7, a barrister or a foreign lawyer. (Amended 42 of 2000 s. 14)
(2) A person who is qualified to practise foreign law and who—
(a) from within a foreign firm but not as a foreign lawyer; or
(b) from within a Hong Kong firm but not as a solicitor or foreign lawyer, 
offers his services to the public as a practitioner of foreign law, does not commit an offence under subsection (1) so long as he does not so offer his services in any 12 month period for more than 3 continuous months or more than 90 days.
(3) A foreign lawyer who offers his services to the public as a practitioner of foreign law in a capacity other than as a practitioner in a foreign firm or a Hong Kong firm commits an offence.
(4) A foreign lawyer or foreign firm must not— (Amended 26 of 2012 s. 9)
(a) employ or take into partnership a solicitor who holds a practising certificate; or
(b) employ or take into partnership a barrister who holds a practising certificate. (Amended 26 of 2012 s. 9)
(5) Where a Hong Kong firm and a foreign firm have an agreement as described in section 39C(1) and they are not registered as an Association, the partners or the sole practitioners of each firm commit an offence.
(6) A person who commits an offence under this section is liable to a fine of $500,000.
(Added 60 of 1994 s. 39)

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

51. Application of penal provisions to body corporate
(1) If any act is done by a body corporate, or by any director, officer or servant thereof, of such a nature or in such a manner as to be calculated to imply that the body corporate is qualified or recognized by law as qualified to act as a solicitor, the body corporate shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $500,000, and, in the case of an act done by a director, officer or servant of the body corporate, such person shall also be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $500,000. (Amended 46 of 1989 ss. 11 & 13) 
(2) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that in sections 45, 45A, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 50B, references to unqualified persons and to persons include references to a body corporate. (Amended 2 of 2010 s. 7)
(Amended 60 of 1994 s. 40) [cf. 1957 c. 27 s. 22 U.K.]

52. Solicitors not to commence or defend actions while in prison
(1) No solicitor whilst a prisoner in any prison shall as a solicitor, in his own name or in the name of any other solicitor, sue out any writ or process, or commence, prosecute or defend any action or any matter in bankruptcy. 
(2) Any solicitor commencing, prosecuting or defending any such action or matter in contravention of this section shall be incapable of maintaining any action for the recovery of any costs in respect of any business done by him whilst so confined as aforesaid, and he and any solicitor permitting him to commence, prosecute or defend any such action or matter in his name shall be guilty of contempt of the court in which such action or matter was commenced or prosecuted and may be punished accordingly. 
[cf. 1957 c. 27 s. 35 U.K.]

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

54. Penalty on failure to disclose fact of having been struck off, etc.
(1) Any person who, whilst he is disqualified from practising as a solicitor by reason of the fact that he has been struck off the roll or is suspended from practising as a solicitor, seeks or accepts employment by a solicitor in connection with that solicitor’s practice without previously informing him that he is so disqualified shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $500,000. (Amended 46 of 1989 s. 11; 60 of 1994 s. 42)
(1A) A person whose registration as a foreign lawyer has been cancelled other than under section 19 or suspended and who seeks or accepts employment by a solicitor or foreign lawyer without previously informing the solicitor or foreign lawyer that his registration has been cancelled or suspended commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $500,000. (Added 60 of 1994 s. 42)
(2) No proceedings under this section shall be commenced except by or with the consent of the Secretary for Justice. (Amended L.N. 362 of 1997)
[cf. 1957 c. 27 s. 37 U.K.]

55. Time limit for commencement of certain proceedings
Notwithstanding anything in the Magistrates Ordinance (Cap. 227), proceedings in respect of any offence against section 46, 47, 48, 50B or 54 may be brought at any time within 2 years next after the commission of the offence.
(Amended 60 of 1994 s. 43; 14 of 2003 s. 6)[cf. 1957 c. 27 s. 24 U.K.]

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

56. Agreement for remuneration for non-contentious business
(1) Whether or not any rules made under section 74 are in force, a solicitor and his client may, either before or after or in the course of the transaction of any non-contentious business by the solicitor, make an agreement as to the remuneration of the solicitor in respect thereof. 
(2) The agreement may provide for the remuneration of the solicitor by a gross sum, or by commission or percentage or by salary, or otherwise, and it may be made on the terms that the amount of the remuneration therein stipulated for either shall or shall not include all or any disbursements made by the solicitor in respect of searches, plans, travelling, stamps, fees or other matters. 
(3) The agreement shall be in writing and signed by the person to be bound thereby or his agent in that behalf. 
(4)  The agreement may be sued and recovered on or set aside in the like manner and on the like grounds as an agreement not relating to the remuneration of a solicitor: 
Provided that if on any taxation of costs the agreement is relied on by the solicitor and objected to by the client as unfair or unreasonable, the taxing officer may inquire into the facts and certify them to the Court, and if on that certificate it appears just to the Court that the agreement should be cancelled, or the amount payable thereunder reduced, the Court may order the agreement to be cancelled, or the amount payable thereunder to be reduced, and may give such consequential directions as it thinks fit. 
[cf. 1957 c. 27 s. 57 U.K.]