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Legal Aid Department

The Legal Aid Department is a department of the Government of Hong Kong. It provides legal aid in the form of legal representation by a solicitor or barrister in civil and criminal proceedings in the District Court and above.

Alleged abuse of the legal aid system
In the wake of a number of successful judicial review applications that were made with support from the Legal Aid Department, some pro-government voices criticised the legal aid system for being open to "abuse" and "monopolisation". In 2021, the government announced a series of measures to curb applicants' ability to choose their own lawyer, and to limit the number of legal aid cases an individual lawyer could take up. == List of Directors of Legal Aid ==
List of Directors of Legal Aid
Source: • Desmond Francis O'Reilly Mayne QC (1968–1981) • Brian Patrick Clancy (1981–1983) • Patrick Ronald Moss (1984–1993) • Pauline Cheung Cheng Po-Lin, Lady Cheung (1993 - June 1996) • Chan Shu-Ying (June 1996 - 7 August 2004) • Benjamin Cheung King-man (8 August 2004 - 3 January 2010) • William Chan Heung-ping (4 January 2010 - September 2013) • Thomas Edward Kwong (2 September 2013 - 14 March 2022) • Chris Chong (15 March 2022 – present) == References ==
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