Mourant supports Equal Justice Hong Kong
Mourant is proud to sponsor the Equal Justice 2023 Impact Report which was published in October 2024. This is the second consecutive year the firm has sponsored the report.
Launched in 2020, Equal Justice 平義社 provides free legal education, information and support to disadvantaged people in Hong Kong who cannot afford, or otherwise access the law and lawyers.
They strive to close Hong Kong’s justice poverty gap and to reduce hardship.
Equal Justice - progress and achievements
Since its launch in 2020, the charity's achievements include:
- Helping almost 2,000 people to anticipate, prevent and solve their legal problems.
- Providing legal education to 1,000 people.
- Training front-line caseworkers at over 20 NGOs to spot legal problems.
- Matching 180 requests for legal advice to lawyers willing to help for free.
- Launching two systemic and sustainable change digital legal access portals: PAT: Pregnant@Work (which gives Hong Kong employees, employers, and families the information they need for happier and better-supported pregnancies) and CLIX, Hong Kong’s pro bono matching portal.
- Organising the inaugural, annual No-One Left Behind絕不遺漏一人 forum to address the importance of investing in law as a social welfare service.
The charity also works to drive positive social change through digitally innovative, interconnected cycles of education, service, and knowledge exchange, including:
- Providing two digital legal access portals, PAT and CLIX (PAT was the winner of the 2022 ALITA 'Outstanding Legal Technology for Good Award' and CLIX was a finalist for the 2023 ALITA 'Outstanding Legal Technology for Good Award').
- The Duty Lawyer - a free legal advice referral scheme.
- Hong Kong Bar Association exemption to instruct barristers directly for advice.
- Members of the World Justice Project and of Namati, the Grassroots Justice Network.
Read the impact reports
To find out more about the full extent of the charity's recent work and achievements, click on the links below to read the latest Equal Justice Impact Reports, sponsored by Mourant, in full.
