Background
Philip Woods was born in 1950. English is recorded as his spoken language, and his later professional life was centred in Hong Kong.
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Woods qualified for legal practice through admission to the bar in two jurisdictions. He was admitted to the bar in England in 1974 and subsequently in Hong Kong in 1975.
Hong Kong was then a British colony whose legal system followed English common law, so admission in both jurisdictions reflected the close connection between the two legal systems. The 1975 Hong Kong admission placed him within the territory's legal profession, where he later worked as a partner.
Career
Woods worked as a partner of Wilkinson & Grist, a Hong Kong law firm. The firm traces its origins to 1883, when Daniel Edmund Caldwell began his practice in Hong Kong. After Caldwell left the firm in 1891 and Edgar James Grist became a partner, the firm took the name Wilkinson & Grist.
Wilkinson & Grist is one of Hong Kong's oldest and most established law firms. Its history includes acting in leading cases in the early legal history of the territory. The firm moved to Jardine House in 1965 and to Prince's Building in 1982, and it opened an office in Beijing in 2000.
