Our legal costs are chargeable either on scale charges, agreed fees or time-engaged basis. For the latter, of course, we shall endeavour to keep the time spent to a minimum. However, the amount of time we need to conduct a case is a matter for our judgment with regard to the complexity and the difficulty of the case.

The hourly rates for our qualified staff are as follows :

For more detailed hourly rates of each of our qualified lawyers and staff, please refer to News - Announcements. You will find out more about our up-to-date rates from time to time.

Alternatively, subject to the nature of your case and our agreement for certain fee proposals, we may charge for our services at an agreed cost or on scale charges basis (exclusive of all disbursements).

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General Terms & Conditions

For details of our general terms and conditions, please refer to our website by clicking to "General Terms & Conditions".

We are used to send clients our bill of services on an interim basis of every 2 month or whenever our costs and disbursements have incurred at HK$5,000 or more, so that clients can be kept informed as to the costs being incurred from time to time.

For the recoverability of legal costs, in Hong Kong , an order for costs is made in favour of the successful party, that is the losing party will be ordered to pay to the winning party the costs of fighting the case. Once the case has finished, and an order for costs is made by the court, then the winning party will prepare the bill of costs. This bill is presented to the losing party. The losing party may agree to pay the bill, or more likely, will disagree and seek a reduction. If the parties cannot reach agreement between themselves on the quantum of the bill, then the Court is requested to assess the bill. The bill is usually assessed on a “party and party basis”, which means that the Court will only allow such costs as were necessary and proper for the attainment of justice.

In most cases, we require our clients to deposit a certain sum of money into our client's accounts being costs on account to meet necessary disbursements.