Seeking mini-pupillage in hk?

Great answer from Peter, but I have something to add:

I advice you not to be picky. You should take any placement offers you get since you are competing with a host of law students. Unless you are studying in some distinguished law schools in the UK, otherwise barristers may prefer HK law students. After all, law is jurisdiction specific.

You can in fact get attached to different barristers over the summer~ you may want to work in one chambers for a month and then work in another for the rest of your holidays. That's something you can consider

Write letters to the chambers. Emails are not preferable. Although every barrister is his own boss, some chambers in fact have a barrister dealing with placement applications. This is because every chambers is flooded with placement applications every year. Write to the chambers' address.

Not every barrister takes on summer attachments, and you never know who will accept your application and who will throw it into the dustbin. Therefore, law students usually adopt a scatter gun approach~ many of them send out dozens on letters requesting for placement to different chambers

Attach your CV to your application.

Summer is the better time for placements since you can follow a case from start to finish. However, Christmas placements are also worth consideration.

First of all you should understand that a barrister is his own boss. He does not work for anyone. A set of chambers is a place where a barrister works. In short a group of barristers would join together and rent / share an office together. The office is divided into individual rooms which is called a barrister's chamber. The rent of the office is shared by the barristers according to the size of his own chamber. The office staff - ie. secretary, admin manager, receptionist, typists, clerks are all employed by the set of chambers and the costs are shared between each barrister. Each barrister would take on his own cases and earn his own fees. The office is run by the Admin Manager and there is no 'boss' in a set of chambers.
So to work as a placement in a barrister's chamber you would have to approach individual barrister to see if he / she would be willing / interested to take you on. Some barristers like to do that, but some don't. Generally older barrister would be more likely to do so than younger barristers.
The best time to do a pacement would be during the summer holidays. That way you can spend longer time working there and it would not be looked at as a waste of time (eg. if you only work there for 3 weeks during Xmas, when the courts are slow and everyone is on holiday, what good could you do or what could you gain? Courts has high-season and low-season as well...)

2009-01-22 18:58:35 補充：
Of course, if you can get someone in the legal field to recommend you, or if your family has connections (uncles...), it would vastly improve your chance of getting a placement.

2009-01-22 18:59:48 補充：
Negligence and personal injuries are civil litigation cases and there are a lot of good civil barristers.

2009-01-22 19:00:06 補充：
But since civil cases usually take a long time (more than a summer holiday), so most civil barristers would not take on placemens because you do not actually get to see a case from start to finish most of the time.

2009-01-22 19:00:23 補充：
Maybe you should try getting attached to a criminal barrister first to get some experience.
Sorry I am not at liberty to recommend anyone in particular.