Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng today signed a memorandum of understanding with eBRAM International Online Dispute Resolution Centre (eBRAM) Chairman Thomas So on the provision of Hong Kong Legal Cloud services.

Ms Cheng expressed her appreciation to eBRAM for supporting this latest lawtech initiative to benefit a larger number of local legal and dispute resolution practitioners.

The Department of Justice will provide funding support of around $15.7 million, through the Hong Kong Legal Cloud Fund, to enhance the capability of the legal profession to harness modern technology in the provision of legal and dispute resolution services.

It also aims to encourage local legal and dispute resolution communities to subscribe to the Hong Kong Legal Cloud services developed by a selected non-profit-making non-governmental body through public-private partnership.

Upon the department's careful consideration of the submissions and supplementary information provided by all the interested service providers, eBRAM has been selected as the service provider of the cloud services.

With the funding support, eBRAM will develop an advanced and user-friendly online facility situated in Hong Kong to offer safe, secure and affordable data storage services to the local legal and dispute communities.