Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2007

Moot court facilities Chinese University Bulletin Spring · Summer 2007 Diversity Besides better quality and quantity, the legal profession demands more diversity among lawyers. To this end, the school creates opportunities for people with other training and experience to consider a legal career. Its JD programme provides mature students coming fromdifferent professional backgrounds with the opportunity to study law and to consider law as a career. In fact, the JD programme has done extremely well in its first year. The school had originally intended to take in about 100 students, but ended up admitting 230 because of the exceptional quality of the candidates. Prof. McConville recounts, ‘Many of the students on the programme are chief executives in business, doctors, chief of police, even deans of law schools. About 42% had first-class honours, doctorates or equivalent. A further 16% were within no more than two marks away from first-class honours. They will give law firms and barrister chambers a richer mix of practitioners from which to choose. And that can only be very good for Hong Kong.’