Community Legal Access:				   No One Left Behind 絕 不 遺 漏一人 2025

Community Legal Access: No One Left Behind 絕 不 遺 漏一人 2025

The importance and social impact, status of, and opportunities for community legal support in Hong Kong SAR. 香港特別行政區社區法律支援的重要性、社會影響、現狀及機遇。

By Equal Justice 平義社

Date and time

Thursday, May 29 · 2:30 - 6pm HKT

Location

A & O Shearman

9F Three Exchange Square Central Hong Kong, HKI Hong Kong

Agenda

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Refreshments

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM

Welcome & opening remarks

2:45 PM - 3:20 PM

Keynote speech: Professor Dame Hazel Genn KC (Hon)

3:20 PM - 4:00 PM

Panel: The importance & social impact of community legal access

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Break

4:15 PM - 4:50 PM

Panel: The status of community legal access in Hong Kong

4:50 PM - 5:25 PM

Panel: The opportunities for, and future of, community legal access

5:25 PM - 6:00 PM

A Mainland perspective

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Closing & Drinks

About this event

香 港 社 區 法 律 服 務 Community Legal Access Forum 2025 : 絕 不 遺 漏 一人 No One Left Behind is the second, annual, cross-sector forum about the importance and social impact, status of, and opportunities for accessible and affordable community legal support in Hong Kong SAR.

香港社區法律服務 Community Legal Access Forum 2025: 絕不遺漏一人 No One Left Behind 是每年舉辦的跨界別公益論壇。今年是第二屆,旨在探討香港社區法律支援的重要性、社會影響、現狀及機會。論壇匯集了來自法律界、慈善界及本地社區的領袖,通過深入討論、建立聯繫和促進跨界合作,強化對香港社區邊緣群體的法律支援。


The Forum convenes leading minds and contributors from the legal, philanthropy, and community sectors to build awareness, initiate discussions, create community, and to foster more connection and partnership to enhance legal support for Hong Kong’s most marginalized communities.

論壇匯集了來自法律界、慈善界及本地社區的領袖,通過深入討論、建立聯繫和促進跨界合作,強化對香港社區邊緣群體的法律支援。


Please note that seating is limited.

Contact: MayForum@equaljustice.org


WHY ATTEND?

Insights: Hear from experts working to bridge community legal services gaps.

Be Inspired: Learn about ongoing efforts to improve equitable access to legal support for a more inclusive Hong Kong.

Learn: Understand how legal access enhances social wellbeing, harmony and economic development, and its role in alleviating poverty (Sustainable Development Goal 16.3: ‘equal access to justice for all’). Understand the power the law has to increase social wellbeing and harmony, and its role in alleviating poverty (SDG 16.3).

Network: Connect with key actors to forge actionable strategies and deeper partnerships. Meet others working in the community legal access space.


為何參與?

瞭解觀點:瞭解各專家在關於彌合社區法律服務與資源缺口上的觀點。

獲得啟發: 得知使香港法律支援變得更平等的各項努力,以建設更包容社會所。認識法律在增進社會福祉與和諧、緩解貧困問題(聯合國永續發展目標16.3)所發揮的重要作用。

尋求解決方案與合作夥伴: 集思廣益,找社區法律服務與解決方案的新思路 。

交流: 與各界人士聯繫,共創可行策略,加强合作。


Sincere thanks to A&O Shearman, Linklaters and Ropes & Gray for their support of the Forum.

Organized by

Equal Justice 平義社 is an award-winning, Hong Kong charity that launched in mid-2020 to respond to increasing calls for free legal information and support by disadvantaged people facing legal problems and who did not know where to go - as well to calls from the social welfare charities supporting them. In 4+ years, and thanks to the support of many people, we've helped 2,000 people to resolve their legal problems, launched 1 forum, 2 digital innovation platforms and provided free legal education to over 1,000 attendees. #NeverOurWorkAlone #SDG16.3 #ReduceHardship #MoreEqualAccessToJustice