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Conference Paper: Providing Justice for Low-Income Youths: Publically-funded Lawyers and Youth Clients in Hong Kong
| Title | Providing Justice for Low-Income Youths: Publically-funded Lawyers and Youth Clients in Hong Kong |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 2014 |
| Publisher | Common Ground Publishing. |
| Citation | The 9th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Vancouver, Canada, 11-13 June 2014 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | This presentation examines the representation of youth delinquency cases by publically-funded lawyers in Hong Kong. Unlike Western jurisdictions where juvenile justice has shifted towards the justice model of procedural safeguards, Hong Kong has maintained a welfare-oriented approach. Drawing on interviews with 40 youth defendants and defence lawyers, the roles of publically-funded lawyers are assessed. Analysis of the interviews found that the role of publically-funded lawyers, faced with institutional constraints, become primarily that of plea mitigators, assisting the state to pursue the welfare and ‘the best interests of the child’, as opposed to advocates that ‘gets the child off.’ Youth defendants accepted this role and viewed publically-funded lawyers to be a part of the system and inferior to privately retained lawyers. |
| Description | Session: Public Policy and Reform |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/198676 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Cheng, KKY | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Chui, WH | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Ong, R | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-07-07T08:57:37Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2014-07-07T08:57:37Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | The 9th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Vancouver, Canada, 11-13 June 2014 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/198676 | - |
| dc.description | Session: Public Policy and Reform | - |
| dc.description.abstract | This presentation examines the representation of youth delinquency cases by publically-funded lawyers in Hong Kong. Unlike Western jurisdictions where juvenile justice has shifted towards the justice model of procedural safeguards, Hong Kong has maintained a welfare-oriented approach. Drawing on interviews with 40 youth defendants and defence lawyers, the roles of publically-funded lawyers are assessed. Analysis of the interviews found that the role of publically-funded lawyers, faced with institutional constraints, become primarily that of plea mitigators, assisting the state to pursue the welfare and ‘the best interests of the child’, as opposed to advocates that ‘gets the child off.’ Youth defendants accepted this role and viewed publically-funded lawyers to be a part of the system and inferior to privately retained lawyers. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Common Ground Publishing. | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences | en_US |
| dc.rights | International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. Copyright © Common Ground Publishing. | - |
| dc.title | Providing Justice for Low-Income Youths: Publically-funded Lawyers and Youth Clients in Hong Kong | en_US |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
| dc.identifier.email | Chui, WH: ericchui@hku.hk | en_US |
| dc.identifier.authority | Chui, WH=rp00854 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 229724 | en_US |
| dc.publisher.place | United States | - |