Tanner De Witt in the Community

Tanner De Witt is committed to providing legal services to appropriate charities and to the support of groups and organisations working for others that have special relevance to members of the firm or to its clients. Senior members of the firm encourage all, and especially junior lawyers, to become involved in such areas to develop their skills and to discharge the wider social duty that we consider lawyers owe. We undertake activities both within the profession and in external areas.

• Tanner De Witt's pro bono work recently included acting for Amnesty International Hong Kong in securing an employment visa for the human rights organisation's director in 2006.
• We actively support the work of Domestic and Migrant Workers, a charitable body established to assist those from overseas who work in Hong Kong to understand their rights and obligations under the labour laws of Hong Kong and, where necessary, to enforce those entitlements.
• We also support Enlighten Hong Kong, a charitable organisation whose mission is to widen opportunities and choices for people affected by epilepsy and to raise awareness of epilepsy issues in all sectors of the community.
• The firm has made contributions to an orphanage in Bali and from time to time supports other projects.

‘Give a Ger’ Fund

Photo from Christina Noble Children's Foundation

Tanner De Witt supports Christina Noble Children's Foundation's ‘Give a Ger’ Fund, which is an emergency fund established to provide families in danger of becoming homeless, or otherwise inadequately or dangerously accommodated, with a family home (‘ger’, also known as ‘yurt’) in Mongolia.

Please click the following link for a report with photographs: Donation of a Ger to Bayarjargal