Hong Kong Regulations

LEGAL AID (SCALE OF FEES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 5

Fees and costs payable to solicitor

The amount payable by the Director to a solicitor acting for an aided person
shall be-

   (a)  the full amount allowed on taxation on account of disbursements;

   (b)  the full amount allowed on taxation on account of profit costs; and

   (c)  in cases where fixed costs are applicable and the solicitor has made
        an election to take fixed costs, the full amount of such fixed costs,
        or, in default of taxation or where an election to take fixed costs
        has not been made, an amount as may be fixed by the Director, not
        exceeding such amount as in the opinion of the Director would have
        been allowed if there had been taxation or would have applied if there
        had been an election to take fixed costs. (Enacted 1989)