AFAIK, foreign non-permanent judges don't have to pass the bar in HK to be able to sit on a trial. They only have to be from another common law jurisdiction.
Doesn't say anything about having to pass the HK bar or having studied HK law at all.(4) A person shall be eligible to be appointed as a judge from another common law jurisdiction if he is-
(a) a judge or retired judge of a court of unlimited jurisdiction in either civil or criminal matters in another common law jurisdiction;
(b) a person who is ordinarily resident outside Hong Kong; and
(c) a person who has never been a judge of the High Court, a District Judge or a permanent magistrate, in Hong Kong.
OK having just looked at SCMP guess it's in relation to this topic
Beijing throws the book at Hong Kong’s foreign judges | South China Morning Post
Its rather really ironic. The reason that HK has survived so long the way it has is because cashed up corrupt CCP officials and their offspring are able to use HK as a money laundering centre. It works because HK is full of big banks, accounts firms and law firms, etc and they are comfortable being in HK because of its independent judiciary and strong rule of law. Here I'm not talking about the day to day lawlessness that pisses us of but the big money shit that these corporate care about (like being able to enforcement judgements against a minority shareholder, etc). The minute the independent judiciary and strong rule of law gets eroded the legitimised money washers (i.e. big banks, accounts firms and law firms, etc) will leave and the corrupt CCP types will not be able to launder their money so easily.Original Post Deleted
I'll declare that I do have an anti-police streak. I just can't understand people who declare in the media that the police did NOTHING wrong. To these people the video evidence and facts of what happened at the police station are somehow invisible. (or to be denied ad infinitum!) It's a short leap from this dim-wittedness to then blame the legal system for its more balanced judgement of what went down.
Are we talking about Hong Kong here?
If so, then the question doesn't make sense.
All residents of Hong Kong can work in law or any other field - just like any other resident.
Article 33 of the Basic Law states that
Hong Kong residents shall have freedom of choice of occupation.
The definition of resident is found in Article 24
And,
Article 25
All Hong Kong residents shall be equal before the law.
I imagine there are others that would also apply...so, read the other articles.
After all, the Basic Law decides - not an online opinion poll, I'm afraid...