How to seek legal assistance in Hongkong

Hongkong lawyer in Shenzhen office phone 13538290461 (assistant answer) QQ online consulting 1191363433 address: Shenzhen, Futian District Lotus branch No.1 bus building. Hongkong law firm address: Hongkong Sheung Wan Shun Tak Centre of Legal Aid Counsel for eligible applicants, and providing counsel when necessary, representative litigation in court. This service is provided by the legal aid department in Hong Kong, any person, whether local residents or non residents, can apply for.

The legal aid department to provide the scope of legal aid, including legal procedure in the court:

• The District Court
• The court of first instance
• The court of appeal of the high court
• Court of last instance
• The Magistrates Court (only the committal proceedings)
• MHRT
• The coroner's Court (for the maintenance of social justice)

As your legal aid application is approved, DLA will be appointed by a lawyer or a private practice lawyers represent you in legal proceedings. If your case is sentenced, the Department regularly monitors the case and its progress.

Legal aid plan category

The legal aid department to provide two types of legal aid scheme:

• Ordinary legal aid scheme:
  Civil procedure: covers the case categories include family and matrimonial disputes, personal injury claims, disputes, contract disputes, immigration matters and professional negligence claims.
  Criminal procedure: covers the magistrates court for trial procedure (delivered by the magistrate decide whether there is sufficient evidence to the delivery of high court trial or sentence procedure), in the district court and the court of first instance trial of the case, the case on appeal the court ruling, as well as to the court of appeal of the high court or the court of final appeal cases.
• The legal aid scheme:
  This plan beyond the ordinary legal aid scheme for amount of financial resources, and does not exceed an amount of people. Plan for personal injury, medical, dental or legal professional negligence litigation, damages is likely to exceed $60000. The plan also covers according to "the Employees Compensation Ordinance" claim or action, claim amount is no limit.

Qualifications for application

To successfully apply for legal aid, you must pass through economic review and case review.

• Economic review:
  As a civil case, whether you apply for legal aid or ordinary legal aid scheme, your financial resources must not exceed the legal limit. In some cases, DLA or based on cases involving violation of certain basic human rights litigation issue, exemption from the financial resource limit.
  
  If a criminal case, DLA as given that the applicant legal help to uphold justice, can be exempted from the provisions of financial resource limit and grant aid.
  
  The case review:
  In civil cases, you must have sufficient grounds for bringing or defending. As to the criminal cases such as the trial, help to uphold justice, will be granted legal aid. As to the criminal appeal cases, the applicant must have sufficient grounds for appeal.

Legal aid contributions

If you through economic review and case examination, and obtain legal aid, you must according to your own financial resources litigation expenses and other expenses paid contributions.

As a civil case, you also may be used to recover or retained in the proceedings of the money or property to pay the litigation party failed to recover the costs and other expenses.