Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services

Meeting on Tuesday, 25 June 2013, from 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm
in Conference Room 1 of the Legislative Council Complex

Agenda

I.	Information paper issued since the last meeting (4:30 pm - 4:31 pm)
	LC Paper No. CB(4)766/12-13(01) (issued on 10 June 2013)	-	Paper entitled "Proposed Amendments to the Official Administrator's Accounts (Interest) Rules" provided by the Judiciary Administration
II.	Date of next meeting and items for discussion (4:31 pm - 4:50 pm)
	LC Paper No. CB(4)794/12-13(01) (issued on 20 June 2013)	-	List of outstanding items for discussion
	LC Paper No. CB(4)794/12-13(02) (issued on 20 June 2013)	-	List of follow-up actions
*Legend symbol denoting All other Hon Members of the Legislative Council are invited to take part in the discussion of items III and IV.III.	Implementation of the recommendations made by the Law Reform Commission (4:50 pm - 5:45 pm)
	LC Paper No. CB(4)794/12-13(03) (issued on 19 June 2013)	-	Paper on implementation of the recommendations made by the Law Reform Commission
*Legend symbol denoting All other Hon Members of the Legislative Council are invited to take part in the discussion of items III and IV.IV.	Establishment of an independent legal aid authority (5:45 pm - 6:55 pm)
	(issued by Deloitte Consulting (Hong Kong) Limited in March 2013	-	Consultancy Study on the feasibility and desirability of establishing an independent legal aid authority (English version only)
	LC Paper No. CB(4)747/12-13(03) (issued on 19 June 2013)	-	Executive summary of the report of the consultancy study on the feasibility and desirability of establishing an independent legal aid authority issued in March 2013 (English version only)
	LC Paper No. CB(4)747/12-13(02) (issued on 19 June 2013)	-	Letter from the Legal Aid Services Council to the Chief Executive dated 30 April 2013 on independence of legal aid (English version only)
	LC Paper No. CB(4)747/12-13(01) (issued on 19 June 2013)	-	Letter from the Legal Aid Services Council to the Chief Executive dated 27 May 2013 on independence of legal aid (English version only)
	LC Paper No. CB(4)794/12-13(04) (issued on 20 June 2013)	-	Updated background brief on the establishment of an independent legal aid authority prepared by the Legislative Council Secretariat
	Meeting with deputations and the Administration 1. Society for Community Organization 2. The Law Society of Hong Kong (LC Paper No. CB(4)794/12-13(05) - English version only - issued on 19 June 2013) 3. Legal Aid Counsel Association 4. Hong Kong Bar Association (LC Paper No. CB(4)830/12-13(01) - English version only - issued on 25 June 2013) 5. Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions Submissions from deputations / members of the public not attending the meeting 1. The Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions Rights & Benefits Committee (LC Paper No. CB(4)794/12-13(06) - Chinese version only - issued on 19 June 2013) 2. Miss Josephine PINTO (LC Paper No. CB(4)794/12-13(07) - English version only - issued on 19 June 2013) 3. Legal Aid Department Law Clerks Association (LC Paper No. CB(4)825/12-13(01) - Chinese version only - issued on 24 June 2013)
V.	Any other business (6:55 pm - 7:00 pm)

^{* All other Hon Members of the Legislative Council are invited to take part in the discussion of items III and IV.}

Council Business Division 4
Legislative Council Secretariat
25 June 2013