Political situation
Written by Pan Xiqiao
2020-04-11 12:57
Date of last update: 2020-04-11 12:57The New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic continues to ferment and most of the judiciary and services have stalled, affecting the livelihood of the legal profession. The Secretary for Justice Zheng Ruohua published a blog today (11th), saying that he understands the voice of the industry and hopes that the legal technology fund and the new coronavirus online dispute resolution plan launched recently will help the industry to apply legal technology more widely to alleviate The dilemma they face.
The Secretary for Justice Zheng Ruohua pointed out that since January this year, the judiciary has repeatedly shut down due to the epidemic situation, and judicial services have been suspended. (Profile picture)
Since January this year, the judiciary has repeatedly shut down due to the epidemic situation, and judicial services have been suspended, which has affected the livelihood of the legal profession. Zheng Ruohua said that he had earlier contacted different representatives of the legal profession to listen to their opinions and understand that they hoped that the government could support the legal profession. Therefore, he actively studied the various proposals made by the legal profession with relevant departments.
She pointed out that the government announced the measures of the second round of anti-epidemic and anti-epidemic funds on Wednesday (8th). Two of them are related to the law and dispute resolution industry. They are the establishment of a legal technology fund and the launch of a new coronavirus online dispute resolution plan (COVID). -19 ODR Scheme).
Zheng Ruohua pointed out that the government has always attached great importance to legal science and technology, and since the judiciary announced the general extension of court arrangements at the end of January this year, the number of cases affected by courts at all levels accounted for nearly 18% of the total number of cases in the year.
She accused the judiciary of having started a remote hearing in the civil justice proceedings of the High Court, and quoted the media as saying that the first appeal with the video system in the Court of Appeal of the High Court, the lawyer representatives of both parties, gave positive comments on the arrangement , That the cost is not high and works well.
Zheng believes that in the severe stage of the epidemic, the legal profession must review as soon as possible how to make more use of legal technology and study how to strengthen relevant capabilities. She pointed out that the government has launched a legal technology fund in a new round of bail-out measures. The purpose is to assist some small and medium-sized law firms, barristers' offices, and related parties to purchase or upgrade information technology systems, and arrange employees to participate in relevant legal technology training.
She believes that the relevant measures can not only cooperate with the judicial organization's remote hearing arrangement, but also maintain social distance with customers and others, and promote the development of webinars or increasingly common online training, which can help improve the level of capacity building.
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She continued to point out that the target of the Legal Science and Technology Fund is small and medium-sized enterprise law firms with 5 or less practicing lawyers, barristers, and barrister offices. Each law firm or barrister's office can obtain a subsidy of up to 50,000 yuan in real money. The Hong Kong Law Society and the Hong Kong Bar Association will jointly manage applications for the fund. The goal is to start accepting applications next month.
Zheng Ruohua said that the Department of Justice will cooperate with government policies in the future to help create some time-limited jobs, hoping that all sectors of society will be united in a difficult time and support each other in a spirit of solidarity and help each other overcome difficulties.
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