Hong Kong’s justice minister is lobbying for her department’s legal officers to qualify for promotion to the rank of senior counsel under a proposal that has raised concerns about the wider potential for the city’s solicitors to eventually join an exclusive club open only to top barristers.Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah on Wednesday said she was determined to instil fairness in a system that allowed only barristers to be promoted to senior counsel and deprived solicitors in her…
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