1, the right to appear in court is different: barristers are litigation lawyers and trial lawyers, specializing in litigation. His right to appear in court is unrestricted, and barristers from the magistrate's court to the court of final appeal enjoy the right to appear in court.
2. Different businesses: lawyers handle various legal businesses with a wide range of responsibilities, but their right to appear in court is greatly restricted. Lawyers can only appear in the magistrate's court, the local court and the court of first instance (that is, closed court). When a barrister is unable to appear in court, he needs to entrust a barrister to appear in court, and a Hong Kong barrister must accept the entrustment through a barrister.
3. Legal affairs are different: lawyers mainly deal with daily legal affairs, such as property transfer, probate, marriage disputes, legal proceedings, and acting as legal advisers. Lawyers can also defend their clients in court, but they cannot speak in the Supreme Court.
Judges in Hong Kong are appointed, and more than 90% of the judges are appointed from barristers. A barrister with barrister background and considerable experience may write to the court or apply to express his intention to be a judge, and the court will decide whether to appoint him after comprehensive consideration. If the Chief Justice likes the invitation and recommendation of barristers, he will appoint barristers as judges.
From the Court of Appeal to the Court of Final Appeal, the higher the level of the court, the higher the rank, qualification and prestige of the judges, and vice versa, the fewer the number of judges (the Court of Final Appeal has five permanent judges, more than one non-permanent judge/kloc-0, but many of them are judges of overseas high courts), and the overall structure is pyramid.
The lawyer system in Hong Kong basically follows the British lawyer system, and the scope of practice is limited by many laws. For example, you can't defend in court, you can only do some routine lawyer work. Barristers have a wide range of practice, and are especially respected by all walks of life.
A barrister is what you call a "big picture" or a "barrister". Hong Kong lawyers are not completely unable to appear in court. They can only appear in special courts below the district court, and the district court, the court of first instance and the high court are prohibited from appearing in court. Therefore, their main business is non-litigation transaction business, so they are called lawyers.
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