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What's New
The limits on legal aid assignments for Legal Aid Panel lawyers have been revised and paragraph 6 of Chapter 3 of the Manual for Legal Aid Practitioners has been updated accordingly.
Please click here to view the revised limits.
Chapters 6-9 of the Manual for Legal Aid Practitioners have been updated and revised. For details, please click here.
Civil Litigation (2) of Litigation Division is relocated to 9/F, Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong"
The Controlling Officer's Environmental Report 2020 of the Legal Aid Department has been issued. Please view it here.
The rate of interest on the Director’s First Charge registered on an aided person’s home under Section 18A (3B)(b) of the Legal Aid Ordinance, Cap. 91 changed from 1.243% to 1.270% on 1 June 2021 in line with the provisions of the Legal Aid (Charge on Property) (Rate of Interest) Regulation. The new rate will apply from 1 June 2021 to 31 May 2022.
With effect from 1 March 2021, the amount of personal allowances to be deducted from income when computing an applicant's financial resources has been adjusted.
For full details of the new personal allowances, please click here.
For more information on how the financial resources of an applicant are calculated, please click here.
Please view it here.
Paragraph 8.1 of Chapter 9 of the Manual for Legal Aid Practitioners on engagement of experts has been updated. For details, please click here.
The Departmental Report 2019 of the Legal Aid Department has been issued. Please view it here.
With effect from 26 June 2020, the financial eligibility limits for the Ordinary Legal Aid Scheme (“OLAS”) and the Supplementary Legal Aid Scheme (“SLAS”) have been adjusted upwards. For OLAS, the limit has gone up from $307,130 to $420,400. For SLAS, the adjustment is from $1,535,650 to $2,102,000.
With effect from 1 April 2020, the scope of the Supplementary Legal Aid Scheme (“SLAS”) has been expanded to cover the following types of cases where the claim is likely to exceed $75,000 :