(Circular No.009/09)

The following supplementary occupations have been approved as compatible with practice at the Bar:-

(1) Legal

(a) Offices
(i) Coroner
(ii) Third Party Neutral in alternative dispute resolution procedures, including Mediator, Adjudicator, Arbitrator or Umpire (Circular No. 48/98)
(iii) Member of a board of review, board of inquiry, tribunal, panel or committee established under any statutory or administrative powers (Circular No. 15/99)

(b) Occupations
(i) Examining newspapers, periodicals, books, scripts and other publications for libel, breach of copyright, contempt of court and the like
(ii) Advising producers of plays and films on such matters
(iii) Running a private law tutorial school
(iv) Acting as a trustee for remuneration provided for in the settlement
(v) Acting as unpaid or honorary legal adviser to any charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institution, including a company that has been established for such purpose
(Circular No. 15/99; Circular No.009/09)

(2) Legal or Non-Legal
(a) Writing, editing, and reviewing books and periodicals
(b) Journalism
(c) Broadcasting
(d) Member of a non-trading body established under any statutory or administrative powers
(Circular No. 15/99; Circular No.009/09)

(3) Non-Legal
(a) Lecturing
(b) Business
(i) Non-executive director of a company (whether public or private) or chairman, director, secretary of a company not actively engaged in trade or business
(ii) Chairman, secretary, officer or member of the board of a co-operative society, a management committee of the incorporated owners of a building
(iii) Landlord of rented accommodation
(c) Charities
Officer, trustee or governor of any charitable, benevolent or philanthropic
institution, and where a company has been established for such purpose, chairman, director or secretary of such company
(Circular No. 15/99; Circular No.009/09)