Overseas Lawyers Qualification Examination (OLQE)
For: Lawyers entitled to practise in another country who want to be admitted as solicitors of Hong Kong.
- Apply to the Law Society of Hong Kong to sit the OLQE.
- Pass the written Heads (conveyancing, civil and criminal procedure, commercial and company law, accounts and professional conduct, and Hong Kong constitutional law) and the oral Head on the principles of common law.
- Apply for exemption from some Heads if your experience qualifies, since experienced lawyers can apply for exemption.
- Complete the admission requirements and apply to be admitted as a solicitor.
Lawyers from civil-law countries must also sit the oral examination on common-law principles.
