 In Hong Kong, the Legal Aid Department provides funding to legal services for those who pass the means and merits test.The two Legal Aid Schemes that it operates, namely the Ordinary Legal Aid Scheme (OLAS) and the Supplementary Legal Aid Scheme (SLAS) have facilitated the practice of public interest law through narrowing the resource inequality between economically disadvantaged litigants and the government.However, NGOs and charities are ineligible to legal aid.