According to news, the government intends to modify the legal aid system from three directions, which will be discussed by the Legislative Council's Judicial and Legal Affairs Committee next Tuesday.
Lower the upper limit of lawyers' acceptance of civil cases
According to the news, the government is considering revising the legal aid system. In criminal cases, applicants will no longer be allowed to choose their own lawyer representatives. Instead, the Legal Aid Department will assign lawyers.
In civil cases, the number of cases that each lawyer can accept will also be reduced. The number of cases each barrister can accept per year will be reduced from 20 to 15 cases, and solicitors will be reduced from 35 to 30 cases.
As for judicial review cases, barristers can accept up to 3 cases each year, while solicitors can accept 5 cases.
In addition, the government will also propose to disclose more data on legal aid cases.
According to news, the government will consult the Legislative Council in the short term, and will be discussed by the Judicial and Legal Affairs Committee of the Legislative Council next Tuesday. It is expected to be implemented in the form of administrative measures and does not involve amendments. It is expected to be implemented within this year.
Tang Jiahua pointed out that the legal system itself hopes that all registered lawyers have the opportunity to take cases.
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Senior Counsel Tang Jiahua, a member of the Executive Council, stated on the radio program that the legal aid system itself hopes that all registered lawyers, especially young lawyers, will have the opportunity to take turns. However, in anti-amendment cases, applicants insist that certain lawyers take the case. The original intention of the system.
He believes that barristers and the profession of lawyers will not be affected by political stances. If a lawyer clearly has a political stance and is suspected of being non-neutral, the legal aid system should not assign the lawyer to follow up the case.
As for the disclosure of more data, Tang Jiahua believes that the public's misunderstanding of the legal aid system can be reduced.
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