Tech Note

1. This website is produced and maintained by the Judiciary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. The webpages on this website are best viewed using the latest version of browsers, namely Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Safari or Google Chrome, and with JavaScript option enabled.
   
   
2. All pages of this website are in Unicode (UTF-8) encoding. In case the browser cannot recognize the encoding automatically (thus making the text illegible), appropriate encoding should be selected to display the text : point the mouse to the window/frame in question and select Unicode (UTF-8) from the browser menu (usually in the View-Encoding sub-menu).
   
   
3. Adobe Reader is required for viewing and printing the Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. To download the latest version of Adobe Reader, please click . Installation of the appropriate Chinese font packs is required for old versions Adobe Reader in opening PDF documents containing Chinese characters. Please click here for the details.
   
   
4. MS Word documents can be viewed, filled in and printed out by using Microsoft Word application.