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The Overseas Lawyers Qualification Examination (OLQE) Preparatory Courses 2019

Dr. Richard WU Dr. Richard WU
Associate Professor, LLB (HKU) PCLL (HKU), BSc (Economics), LLM (London), MBA (Warwick),
LLB, LLM (Peking), LLM (IT and Telecommunications Law) (Stratclyde) and
PhD (London)


Dr Richard Wu, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, LLB (HKU) PCLL (HKU), BSc (Economics), LLM (London), MBA (Warwick), LLB, LLM (Peking), LLM (IT and Telecommunications Law) (Strathclyde) and PhD (London). Dr Wu obtained his law degrees from the University of Hong Kong, Peking University and University of London. He is the only legal scholar who studied Hong Kong and Chinese laws at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Dr Wu is a Visiting Scholar of Peking University Law School and Melbourne Law School, Visiting Professor of Tsinghua University Law School and Visiting Academic of Faculty of Law, University College London and TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland. He is also a legal academic with a successful practice track record. He spent more than ten years in private practice, and served as a partner of the largest and oldest law firm in Hong Kong in his time before joining academia in 1998.

Over the past two decades, Dr Wu has integrated his practice experience to teach conveyancing law from a transactional perspective. Currently, he teaches Property Transactions, China Practice, and Ethical Lawyering for Public Interest at HKU Law Faculty. He is also a leading scholar researching land title registration development both locally and globally.



Examination Dates
Important Dates
  • Closing date for lodging application to sit the 2019 OLQE Examinations30 Apr 2019 (Tue)
  • Closing date for registration to sit the 2019 OLQE Examinations9 Aug 2019 (Fri)
  • Issue of candidate slips13 Sep 2019 (Fri)
  • Last date to advise of disability24 Sep 2019 (Tue)
  • Last day to withdraw from Examiantion to be eligible for part refund of registration fee 11 Oct 2019 (Fri)
  • Provisional date for release of the results 10 Mar 2020 (Tue)