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When a family dispute occurs and legal recourse is sought, the problems involved are usually more complicated than that of other cases. In the 1970’s, i.e. the early days of the Legal Aid Department (LAD) after its establishment, LAD started to handle...

Generally speaking, issues of default in payment of wages are handled by the Labour Department. However, in some complicated situations, the Legal Aid Department (LAD) must step in to protect the interests of the employees. This episode will take two...

In Hong Kong, the legislation regarding compensation to employees first appeared in 1953, and its scope of protection has been revised continuously since then. Nevertheless, there are still cases in which injured employees are not compensated from tim...

It has been more than 50 years since the establishment of the Legal Aid Department (LAD) which strives to ensure that any person who has reasonable grounds for taking or defending a legal action is not deprived from seeking justice because of lack of m...

Legal Aid Counsel Tammy HUI recalls that she assisted a lawyer to handle a legal aid case when she was serving pupillage in a private law firm. The victim Catherine LEUNG suffered from total paralysis as a result of her injury during a business trip t...

WONG is an elderly man in his eighties who worked hard most of his life to take care of his family. In 2015, WONG’s wife was paralysed by a stroke, and for a long time WONG took care of her all by himself, feeling isolated and helpless. He could not ...