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Working Party on the Scope of Legal Aid
Council's Interest Group (IG) on Scope of Legal Aid, chaired by Mr Ruy Barretto had identified a number of possible ways to expand the scope of legal aid. Council established a Working Party to consider the proposals in the IG's report, and in April 2005 it selected and prioritized the proposals on extending the scope of legal aid. Subsequently, Council endorsed those proposals and asked the IG to study the following four areas
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extending the scope of the Supplementary Legal Aid Scheme based on principle of recoverability;
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extension of legal aid to enable owners to enforce the Building Management Ordinance and Deed of Mutual Covenant on maintenance and repair of buildings;
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the parole scheme; and
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judges or Masters be given power to refer unrepresented litigants in civil cases for DLA to waive financial eligibility limit. |
IG members who indicated interest to undertake work on the four priority areas were invited to submit the respective reports for consideration by the IG.
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