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In November 2010, legislators of the Hong Kong SAR Government agreed to set a minimum wage level of HK$28.00 (UK£2.29 or US$3.60) per hour, which came into force on 1 May 2011. [12] Effective 1 May 2013, this was raised to HK$30.00 per hour. Effective 1 May 2015, the minimum wage was raised to HK$32.50 per hour.
Standard Mandarin. Hanyu Pinyin. Fǎ lǜ Yuánzhù Shǔ. Yue: Cantonese. Jyutping. faat3 leot6 jyun4 zo6 cyu5. The Legal Aid Department often abbreviated as LAD, is a department in the Government of Hong Kong. It provides legal aid in legal representation for civil proceedings and criminal proceedings in District Court and above.
The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law (commonly known as HKU Law) is one of the 11 faculties and schools at the University of Hong Kong. [1] Founded in 1969 as the Department of Law, it is the oldest law school in Hong Kong. HKU Law is consistently ranked among the top law schools in the world. In 2019, HKU Law was ranked 18th on the QS ...
Since the handover in 1997, the constitutional framework is provided by the Hong Kong Basic Law, which is a piece of National Law of the People's Republic of China and has, practically, constitutional status in Hong Kong. The principle of ‘ one country, two systems ’ was enshrined in Article 5 of the Basic Law until at least 2047, which ...
Labour and Welfare Bureau. The Labour and Welfare Bureau ( Chinese: 勞工及福利局) is an executive agency of the Government of Hong Kong responsible for employment, labor-development, manpower, human resources management, poverty-reduction, and social welfare in Hong Kong. [1]
The Secretary for Justice ( Chinese: 律政司司長) is the head of the Hong Kong Department of Justice, the chief legal advisor to the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, and the chief law enforcement officer of the Government of Hong Kong. Before the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997, the position was known as the Attorney-General of ...
The Solicitor General of Hong Kong is head of the Legal Policy Division of the Department of Justice ( 律政司) in Hong Kong. He (to date no woman has held the post) is responsible for the development of legal policy, advising the Secretary for Justice (called the Attorney General before 1997) on legal issues, and overseeing the department's ...
Since colonial Hong Kong law defines "common law" as "the common law of England", civil rights principles found in the English law are now part of Hong Kong laws as "laws previously in force in Hong Kong" by operation of Articles 8 and 18 and as "common law in force in Hong Kong" pursuant to section 3 of the current Interpretation and General ...