義務律師提供免費法律諮詢服務的一般條款
- 律師樓義務地向公眾提供不超過15分鐘的免費初步法律諮詢。該服務只限電話或親身預約時間。
- 如果閣下有法律問題並希望尋求律師的免費法律意見，你必須致電匯蝶公益熱線電話 9820 3803 / 6902 2133預約，告知他們你想要求免費法律諮詢。
- 在預約之時，同事會要求閣下提供全名，聯繫方式及其他有關資料，因為這為配置合適律師解答閣下的法律問題所需的。
- 對於一個法律問題，閣下只可以作一次的初步法律諮詢。閣下不能為一個法律問題要求多次預約律師。
- 律師有絕對酌情權接受或拒絕對解答閣下的法律問題，提供或不給予初步法律諮詢並無須給予閣下任何理由。
- 如果閣下想在免費初步諮詢後聘任該律師作案件逐後服務，閣下應該向律師索取法律費用報價、收費時鐘標準、可能會產生的其他雜項和相關費用。我們的律師會給予閣下充足的冷靜期，充分考慮。閣下可向第三者比較法律費之後才決定聘用。若然客人了解後仍堅決聘用我們的律師去擔當其律師代表角色，那便不應該婉拒委任。(“Cab Rank Rule”)。
- 經過第一次免費初步諮詢後，義務律師有絕對酌情權接受或拒絕受理閣下案件的後續法律事宜。
- 由於匯蝶公益亦與多區法團/業委會合作，在不同屋宛的法團/業委會辦事處進行免費法律諮詢，故公益律師們有權拒絕處理任何人士投訴所合作法團/業委會的個案。
General Terms and Conditions for Solicitors to Provide Probono Service
- The participating law firm has volunteered to provide to the public an initial legal consultation of not exceeding 15 minutes free of charge. This service is by appointment only.
- If you have a legal problem and wish to seek free consultation with a solicitor, you must call our hotlines 9820 3803 / 6902 2133 and make an appointment informing them that you wish to accept the offer of a free consultation.
- When making an appointment, our staff may require you to provide your full name, contact details and such other information as it may consider necessary.
- You may receive only ONE initial consultation for a legal problem. You must not make multiple appointments with the law firm for one particular legal problem.
- The lawyer has an absolute discretion to accept or refuse to provide an initial consultation without giving reasons.
- If you wish to engage the law firm after the free initial consultation, you should ask the firm to give you an estimate of the costs, charging scale, other disbursements which may incur and all other details about the legal service. A cooling period will be given to you to think it over or compare our cost with other legal firms in the market BEFORE returning to us to confirm your engagement of our legal service.
- After the free initial consultation, the solicitor has an absolute discretion to accept or refuse to take on your case.
- Since we have co-operated with a number of IOs to provide us the offices for carrying out our free legal consultation services, our solicitors has the obligation not to accept any legal enquiries relating to complaints towards the co-operated IOs.