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;
Amanda 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 12 years. She has also taught Professional Practice, Civil Litigation, and Advocacy, 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 seven years.
Her research interests include criminal justice and administration, environmental law (incuding animal law), and PRC criminal law and procedure.
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OLQE 2014
Brochure
Our Speakers
OLQE Calendar
Examination Dates
Head I
28 October 2014 (Tue)
Head II
4 November 2014 (Tue)
Head III
7 November 2014 (Fri)
Head IV
11 November 2014 (Tue)
Head V
16 December 2014 (Tue)
Head VI
28 October 2015 (Tue)
| Important Dates |
Closing date for lodging application to sit the 2014 OLQE Examinations
27 Jun 2014 (Fri)
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Closing date for registration to sit the 2014 OLQE Examinations
15 Aug 2014 (Fri)
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Issue of candidate slips
8-12 Sep 2014
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Last date to advise of disability
29 Sep 2014 (Mon)
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Last day to withdraw from Examiantion to be eligible for part refund of registration fee
14 Oct 2014 (Tue)
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Provisional date for release of the results
24 Feb 2015 (Tue)
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