First of all, in Hong Kong, lawyers have no right to speak in the High Court and the Court of Final Appeal. If the parties need to conduct litigation in the above courts, they need to be transferred to litigation lawyers (barristers) by solicitors.
Second, you cannot be a solicitor and a barrister at the same time. Apply for barrister qualification, have obtained the barrister qualification in Hong Kong for at least 3 years at the time of application, and have obtained the barrister qualification in Hong Kong, Britain and Northern Ireland and practiced for at least 5 years. In contrast, barristers earn more money.
Third, the formation of this system stems from the common law and equity formed during the colonial period in Hong Kong, so lawyers will be divided into barristers and solicitors like Britain. A barrister refers to a lawyer who appears in court at a higher level. Junior lawyers actually go to court, but they only appear in grass-roots courts and public security courts, and the cases they handle are just a chicken feather. In Hong Kong, there is no distinction between barristers and solicitors. According to the current view of the lawyer industry in mainland China, there are two kinds of lawyers with different emphases, namely "litigation lawyers" and "litigation lawyers".