【正文】 shed in May 1998 Printed by The Green Pagoda Press Ltd.9/F., Block Aamp。 (8) 11511. Notes for Guidance on Dress in Court 14012. Guidance for Prosecution Counsel on the Attendance of Witnesses at Conferences 14213. Confessions of Guilt 14914. Overseas Practice Rules of the Bar 17215. (Not Adopted)16. Dual Qualification Rules 17417. (Not Adopted)18(i) Reproduction of Circular No. 6/81 issued by the Law Society of Hong Kong re “Payment of Counsel’s Fees” and “Marking of Counsel’s Diary” (ii) Reproduction of Circular No. 27/97 issued by the Law Society of Hong Kong re “Solicitors personally responsible for Barristers’ fees” (Revision of Principle) 127 (iii) Terms of Reference and Procedure of the Joint Tribunal 12719. Direct Professional Access Rules and Remended Standard Terms of Engagement 50(b)19A. Direct Professional Access Rules and Remended Standard Terms of Engagement for Direct Access by Arbitrators 50(b)20. Acceptance of Brief or Instructions Directly from Persons Authorised by Custom or the Bar Council 50(a) amp。 but(a) a barrister is responsible for acts and omissions by his clerk or any employee, when acting on his behalf。(b) not to engage in conduct (whether in pursuit of his profession or otherwise) which is dishonest or which may otherwise bring the profession of barrister into disrepute, or which is prejudicial to the administration of justice。 (d) if a practising barrister, or an employed barrister acting under paragraph 1 83 of this Code, to be petent in all his professional activities.DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS7. Serious failure to ply with the duties set out in paragraph 6 shall be professional misconduct and, if so found by a Barristers Disciplinary Tribunal, shall render the barrister liable to be punished in accordance with the provisions of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, Cap. 159. (Circular No. 57/93)8. Any failure to ply with the duties set out in Paragraph 6 which does not, in the opinion of the Bar Council, amount to professional misconduct shall be a breach of proper professional standards and, if established to the satisfaction of the Bar Council, shall render the barrister liable either (a) to be ordered to attend upon the Chairman or some other person nominated by the Bar Council in order that he should be (1) admonished or (2) given appropriate advice as to his future conduct or (b) to be admonished by letter from the Chairman.[The next paragraph number is 10.]10. It is the duty of a barrister:(a) to respond to any requirement from the Bar Council for ments or information or to attend the Special Committee on Discipline or any other nominated or appointed person when required to do so by the Bar Council, (Circular No. 06/94) (b) to attend proceedings before a Barristers Disciplinary Tribunal when so required,(c) to attend upon the Chairman or other nominated or appointed person when required to do so by the Bar Council under paragraph 8 above.11. A barrister must report to the Bar Council if he is convicted of a criminal offence which involves dishonesty or which may bring the profession into disrepute. In case of doubt the offence should be reported.DEFINITION12. In this Code (except for paragraph 140), the expression “Court” includes any court or tribunal or any other person or body whether sitting in public or private before whom a barrister appears as an advocate and save and unless otherwise provided words in the masculine gender include the feminine gender and where necessary words in the singular include the plural.13. In this Code the expressions “professional chambers” and “chambers” mean premises used by one or more barristers to carry on their practices and not shared with persons who are not barristers. For example, business centres or other premises shared with persons who are not barristers are not professional chambers as defined in this Code. (Circular No. 019/04)[The next paragraph number is 20.]PRACTISING BARRISTERS GENERAL PRINCIPLES20. Subject to paragraph 32, a practising barrister is a barrister who has been admitted to practise in Hong Kong and who is entitled and holds himself out as willing to appear in a court on behalf of a client or to give legal advice or services to a client。(2) lecturing, teaching, writing or editing of legal text books or of articles in newspapers or journals。(4) participating in the Duty Lawyer Service Free Legal Advice Scheme。(6) the giving by a barrister who is a nonexecutive director of a pany or a trustee or governor of a charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institution or a trustee of any private trust to the other directors, trustees or governors (as the case may be) of the benefit of his learning and experience on matters of general policy and of general legal principle applicable to the affairs of the pany, institution or trust. (Circular 15/99)(7) subject to the prior approval of the Bar Council, giving advice on legal matters free in a scheme or programme established to the satisfaction of the Bar Council to further the purpose of promoting amongst the public greater awareness of their legal rights, or respect for the rule of law or otherwise promoting the objects of the Bar Association. (Circular 17/03)23. (1) A barrister may not, without the permission of the Bar Council, bee or remain a practising barrister unless he is willing for his practice to be his primary occupation。 and he may not, as a nonexecutive director, do work for the pany which would ordinarily be done by an executive director. (b) A practising barrister may not, as a director, undertake legal work for the pany which, as a barrister, he could only undertake if instructed by a person authorised to instruct him in the matter. For example, he may not draft documents or appear for the pany in proceedings, enquirie