PRC Legal Qualification (HK) study materials
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PRC Legal Qualification (HK) study plan

PRC Legal Qualification (HK) · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Civil Law & Jurisprudence

  • Map the Civil Code into its seven parts and label the articles governing civil capacity, juridical acts, agency, and limitation periods

  • Draft a one-page flowchart linking formation, validity, performance, breach, and remedies for contract disputes

  • Distinguish the core schools of jurisprudence and match each to how PRC courts reason in published judgments

  • Solve 20 civil-law multiple-choice items on juridical acts and agency, logging every error with the correcting rule

Your checkpoint

A 15-page civil-law outline plus an error log of at least 20 solved items, with each error tied to a Code article

Week 2

Civil Law & Criminal Law

  • Analyze property rights, security interests, and tort liability using worked hypotheticals on ownership transfer and mortgage priority

  • Construct the elements of the major intentional crimes and negligence offences, and apply the justifiable-defence and necessity provisions

  • Compare the stages of criminal attempt, preparation, and discontinuation in three short fact patterns

  • Complete 25 mixed civil and criminal multiple-choice items under timed conditions

Your checkpoint

A comparison table of criminal liability stages with three original fact patterns and model answers

Week 3

Criminal Law & Civil Procedure Law and Evidence

  • Apply the rules on joint crimes, cumulative punishment, and sentencing circumstances to structured scenarios

  • Outline the civil evidence rules on burden of proof, admissibility, and judicial notice

  • Trace a civil action from filing through first instance, appeal, and retrial, noting every statutory time limit

  • Answer 15 criminal-law short-answer questions in exam format

Your checkpoint

A one-page procedural timeline of a civil case with all statutory deadlines annotated

Week 4

Constitutional Law & Civil Procedure Law and Evidence

  • Recite the constitutional structure: state organs, their powers, and the relationship between the Constitution and ordinary statutes

  • Explain the constitutional provisions on citizens' rights and duties and apply them to two rights-based scenarios

  • Draft a model civil judgment analysing evidence and applying the burden of proof

  • Sit a 40-item mock test covering civil law, criminal law, and civil procedure

Your checkpoint

A full mock-test score report with a written diagnosis of the three weakest subtopics

Week 5

Criminal Procedure Law & Administrative Law and Administrative Litigation Law

  • Map criminal procedure from investigation through prosecution, trial, and appeal, listing the rights of the accused at each stage

  • Distinguish the types of administrative acts and identify which are reviewable

  • Outline the grounds, standing, and time limits for administrative litigation and state compensation

  • Draft an administrative litigation claim and a defence statement for one hypothetical permit refusal

Your checkpoint

A paired set of pleadings (claim and defence) for an administrative litigation hypothetical

Week 6

Commercial Law and Economic Law & Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law and Socialist Rule of Law Theory

  • Summarize company law rules on incorporation, capital contribution, governance, and shareholder liability

  • Outline the core provisions of the Enterprise Bankruptcy Law and the Labour Contract Law

  • Explain the eleven adherences of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law and connect each to a concrete legal institution

  • Write a 600-word essay applying socialist rule-of-law theory to judicial reform

Your checkpoint

A 600-word theory essay plus a one-page commercial-law statutory map

Week 7

International Law, Private International Law and International Economic Law & Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law and Socialist Rule of Law Theory

  • Distinguish the sources of international law and apply the law of treaties to a reservation scenario

  • Apply the conflict-of-law rules on jurisdiction, applicable law, and recognition of foreign judgments

  • Outline WTO dispute settlement and the core principles of international economic law

  • Complete 20 private international law items and reconcile each with the relevant statute

Your checkpoint

A conflict-of-law decision tree tested against five hypotheticals, with answers cited to statute

Week 8

Constitutional Law & Jurisprudence & Civil Law & Criminal Law & Civil Procedure Law and Evidence & Criminal Procedure Law & Administrative Law and Administrative Litigation Law & Commercial Law and Economic Law & International Law, Private International Law and International Economic Law

  • Sit two full-length timed mock exams under exam conditions and score them against the official weighting

  • Re-drill every item missed across weeks 1 to 7 and confirm each rule is now recalled without notes

  • Condense all outlines into a single 20-page revision sheet organized by domain weight

  • Rehearse the essay structure for theory and jurisprudence questions twice

Your checkpoint

Two scored full mock exams plus a 20-page final revision sheet

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 60% on the 25-item mixed civil and criminal set, with no repeated error type from week 1

Week 4: Score at least 65% on the 40-item mock test and submit the written diagnosis of weak subtopics

Week 6: Complete the theory essay and commercial-law map, and pass a self-quiz on the eleven adherences without notes

Week 8: Score at least 70% on both full mock exams and finish the 20-page revision sheet