Talk:Postgraduate Certificate in Laws

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This is not an advert. To work as a solicitor in Hong Kong, you MUST complete the PCLL, and as well work for 2 years as a trainee solicitor. PCLL + 2 years as a trainee solicitor will make you eligible for practice in Hong Kong as a solicitor. If you want to become a barrister, you have to take the PCLL and undergo pupillage for 1 year, the 2nd half of the 1 year- you will have some ability with some limitations of what you can practice as barrister. A friend of mine is undergoing the PCLL course (he has a LL.B.) and I am in plans of working as a solicitor in Hong Kong as well, so I will as well have to take the PCLL course.

I hope this clears things up.

• New PCLL admissions in 2008 would require 11 core subjects than the usual 8 in 2006/07.

Here are the new required core subjects:

• Contract
• Tort
• Constitutional Law
• Criminal Law
• Land Law
• Equity
• Civil Procedure
• Criminal Procedure
• Evidence
• Business Associations
• Commercial Law

(http://www.hku.hk/law/_file/PCLL2008.pdf)

There is also a yet-to-be-proven/official anounced, but quite "believable" rumor that IELTS requirement will be raised from overall score of 7 to 7.5. Justicelilo 07:21, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Would someone add the history behind PCLL and when it was effective. Before, Lawyers in Hong Kong did not have to do PCLL as their Bachelor of Laws degree was already sufficient to practise law. I've heard the main reason for the creation of PCLL was to improve the standard of lawyers.

I think PCLL is simply a way for students to learn the actual practice of being a lawyer aside from substantive legal language.Justicelilo 07:21, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]