Candidates should note that the test paper for Head IV - Accounts and Professional Conduct will be divided into two parts - Part A concerned with accounts issues and comprising one question carrying 25 marks, and Part B concerned with professional conduct issues, comprising 3 questions carrying 25 marks each.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
The Examination will test candidates on the relevant law up to 31 August 2009
Accounts
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Dr. Dennis Suk Sun CHAN
Dr. Chan was formerly Director of School of Professional Education and Executive Development (SPEED) of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prior to that, he was Associate Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Accountancy (as it was formerly known) of the PolyU. Dr Chan has over 20 years of experience in developing and teaching accounting and finance courses and programmes, as offered to a by local universities in Hong Kong and on the Chinese mainland. In maintaining close links with the professions, Dr Chan has taken up consultancy work and acted as external examiners or committee members for several local professional and regulatory bodies, including the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, CPA Australia, the Hong Kong Securities Institute, the Securities and Futures Commission and the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (as it was formerly known).
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Professional Conduct
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Amanda Whitfort
Associate Professor, Department of Professional Legal Education, The University of Hong Kong
(Barrister of the High Court of Hong Kong)
(Barrister and Solicitor of the Supteme Court of Victoria and the High Court of Australia)
Former Examiner in Professional Conduct (Head IV) for 8 years
Amanda Whitfort is an Associate Professor in the Department of Professional Legal Education where she has led the Criminal Litigation course on The University of Hong Kong's Postgraduate Certificate of Laws for eight years. She has also taught Professional Practice, Civil Litigation, and Advocacy and both the University of Hong Kong and at the City University of Hong Kong.
She has extensive experience in trial prosecution in Australia where she is admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor in the Supreme Court of Victoria and the High Court of Australia. In 2005 she was the first local candiate to pass the Hong Kong Bar Association's Qualification Examinations.
She is currently a parctising member of the Hong Kong Bar and a preosecutor on fiat for the Department of Justice in Hong Kong. In 2001 she was awarded the University of London's Convocation Trust Brigid Cotter prize for obtaining the highest aggregate on the external LLM programme.
She is currently chief examiner for The Law Society of Hong Kong's Overseas Lawyer's Qualification Examinations in Criminal Procedure (Head II) and was previously an examiner in Professional Conduct (Head IV), for eight years. Her research interests include criminal justice and administration, environmental law (incuding animal law), and PRC criminal law and procedure.
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10 November 2009 (Tuesday)
| OLQE Head IV Class Schedule |
# With Study Techniques at first 15 minutes
Revision classes include an examination techniques session
Room 306, 3/F Printing House, 6 Duddell Street, Central, Hong Kong
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Signing in & out at Registration
Registration begins 20 minutes before the start of each session.
Bad Weather Policy
Class sessions will be cancelled if a No. 8 higher tropical cyclone signal or black storm warning is raised within 3 hours before the start of registration or during the session. In the event of cancellation due to bad weather, the session will be re-schedule.
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OLQE 2009
Our Speakers
OLQE Calendar
Examination Dates
Head I
29 October 2009 (Thu)
Head II
3 November 2009 (Tue)
Head III
6 November 2009 (Fri)
Head IV
10 November 2009 (Tue)
Head V
15 December 2009 (Tue)
| Important Dates |
Closing date for lodging application to sit the 2009 OLQE Examinations
10 Jul 2009 (Fri)
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Closing date for registration to sit the 2009 OLQE Examinations
21 Aug 2009 (Fri)
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The Examination will test candidates on the relevant law up to
31 Aug 2009 (Mon)
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Issue of candidate slips
14-18 Sep 2009
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Last date to advise of disability
29 Sep 2009 (Tue)
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Last day to withdraw from Examiantion to be eligible for part refund of registration fee
15 Oct 2009 (Thu)
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Provisional date for release of the results
1 Feb 2010 (Mon)
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