2021-22 judicial service pay adjustment
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The Standing Committee on Judicial Salaries and Conditions of Service (Judicial Committee), chaired by Professor Wong Yuk-shan, completed the annual review on judicial remuneration. Having adopted a balanced approach and considered all relevant factors, the Judicial Committee recommended that judicial salaries should be frozen in 2021-22.
The Judiciary has no objection to the Judicial Committee's recommendation.
The spokesman said, "In coming up with its recommendation to freeze judicial pay for 2021-22, the Judicial Committee has taken into account a basket of factors, including the prevailing economic environment, the labour market situation, the pay freeze for civil servants in 2021-22, the findings of the 2020 Benchmark Study on the Earnings of Legal Practitioners in Hong Kong, the principle of judicial independence and the position of the Judiciary."
A copy of the Report on Judicial Remuneration Review 2021 submitted by the Judicial Committee to the Chief Executive on September 1, 2021, is available at the website of the Joint Secretariat for the Advisory Bodies on Civil Service and Judicial Salaries and Conditions of Service (www.jsscs.gov.hk/en/publications/reports_jscs.htm).
Ends/Wednesday, October 27, 2021
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