We noticed that in a video published in many medias e.g.:
https://www.indy100.com/politics/mark-spencer-little-man-china. Rt Hon Mark Spencer made a racist and derogatory remark about Chinese people.

While on the subject of defending Liz Truss, he said that: “We all talk on personal phones, don’t we? I ring my wife, maybe there’s some little man in China listening to the conversations between me and my wife”, implying the illegal behaviour/offender was Chinese.

The interview has been picked up by a number of media forums and has rightly been condemned by most commentators.

However, we do not believe enough has been done. This was not just a “careless” remark from a normal citizen in a private home. It was by a Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) who was previously Lord President and Leader of the House of Commons, publicly made on a major TV station.

Chinese people have a long-standing relation with British built on mutual respect and shared love of civilisation. The Chinese community in the UK has contributed hugely to the UK economy, daily British life, etc and does not deserve this diminution of the Chinese character.

This government minister has not yet been held accountable for his deliberately prejudiced remarks that have hurt many and brought shame to decent British people.

Rishi Sunak pledged to bring “integrity and accountability” as PM on his first day in No 10. This behaviour of his minister certainly fell below the expected standard.

We strongly believe he should apologise publicly and show some respect to Chinese people.

This position is supported by many Chinese groups within the UK, including those named in the attached list.

International Chinese Alliance against Racism (iCAAR)
UK Society of Chinese Lawyers

Supporting Groups in the UK

1. ACCE Chinese Community and Supplementary School
2. Anglo Chinese Cultural Exchange
3. Anhui Business Association
4. Association of Chinese Collectors UK
5. British Health Qigong Association
6. Bournemouth Chinese Association
7. Business Horizon International Group Ltd
8. Cambridge Chinese Community Centre
9. Camden Chinese Community Center
10. Chinese Acupuncture and Herbel Medicine Alliance UK
11. Chinese Arts and Culture Center
12. Chinese Arts Southampton
13. Chinese Association of Financial Executives
14. Chinese Association of Southampton
15. Chinese Community in Peterborough
16. Chinese Economists Network
17. Chinese In Wales Association
18. Chinese Information and Advice Centre
19. Chinese Veteran’s Society U.K.
20. Chinese Women in Peterborough
21. Citywharf Property Investment Consultancy
22. Colchester Chinese Culture Society
23. Confederation of Chinese Association
24. Confederation of Chinese Business UK
25. Confederation of Fujian in Scotland UK
26. Confederation of Guangxi Chinese association UK
27. Deyin Tai Chi Institute (GB)
28. Euro Asia Youth Association
29. Far Eastern Arts
30. Federation of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners in the UK
31. Federation of UK-South China Culture and Commerce
32. Golden Knot Association UK
33. HeNan Association
34. H.D.B. Chinese Association UK
35. Hubei Britain Association
36. Ipswich Chinese Drumming Ensembles
37. Isle of Man Chinese association
38. Liaoning Chamber of Commerce in the UK
39. London Academy of Chinese Acupuncture UK
40. London Chinatown Chinese Association
41. Northern Britain Chinese Entrepreneurs Association
42. OCMAA Limited
43. Oneworld Travel Group
44. Overseas Chinese Society for Technology and Business in UK
45. Oxford Law Society
46. Portsmouth Chinese Association
47. Portsmouth Chinese woman’s Association
48. Prep Tuition Limited
49. Shanxi Business Association in the UK
50. Tofu Mart Ltd (Bob Zhang)
51. UK Anhui Business Association
52. UK Association for the Promotion of Chinese Education
53. UK Association of Fuzhou Corporation
54. UK Beijing Arts Center
55. UK Beijing Association
56. UK Birmingham Business Association
57. UK China Economics and Cultural Promotion Association
58. UK China Economic and Trade Promotion Association
59. UK China International Friendship Exchange Center
60. UK China Tourism Culture Association
61. UK Chinese Business Association
62. UK Chinese Business Travel Culture Exchange Association
63. UK Chinese Entrepreneurs Club
64. UK Chinese Opera Association
65. UK Chinese Students Association
66. UK-Chinese Table Tennis Club
67. UK Chinese Tour Guilds Association
68. UK Chinese Women Connect Association
69. UK Federation of Fujian Associations
70. UK Foshan Business Chamber
71. UK Fujianese Association
72. UK Guangxi Chinese Association
73. UK Guizhou Business Association
74. UK Hebei Society
75. UK Heilongjiang Association
76. UK Henan Federation of Culture And Business Association
77. UK Hunan association
78. UK Inner Mongolia Business Association
79. UK Jiangsu Business Association
80. UK Lian Jiang Association
81. UK New Concept Health Research Association
82. UK Red Badge Tour Guilds Association
83. UK Shandong Friendship Society
84. UK Shaanxi Association
85. UK Shaanxi Economy & Culture Association
86. UK Sichuan Business Association
87. UK Shunde Business Association
88. UK- Sina Shenzhen Association
89. UK Society of Chinese Accountants
90. UK TianJin Business Association
91. UK Zhongshan Association
92. Xin Jiang Association of United Kingdom
93. ZheJiang UK Association
94. Zhihai Cooperation Association UK
95. ZheJiang UK Association
96. Zhihai Cooperation Association UK

英国当地时间2021年2⽉18⽇英中律师协会春节庆祝活动线上举办，庆祝活动得到了英国各界的鼎⼒⽀持并有包括会员在内的百余⼈参加。

英中律师协会会⻓朱⼩久博⼠MBE致辞说，虽然疫情影响了我们所有⼈，但终会否极泰来。会⻓感谢参加活动的贵宾包括：英国律师协会主席David Greene, 英国律师协会副主席Stephine Boyce, 中国⼤使馆童学军公使兼总领事，威斯敏斯特市⻓及威斯敏斯特市议员议员Nickie Aiken MP，中国太平保险英国总监于晓东，中国太平保险英国副总监董军，中国银⾏英国分⾏副⾏⻓及零售银⾏总监肖亮，中国银⾏中国城分⾏⾏⻓吴彦，伦敦华埠商会主席邓柱廷，英国华⼈企业家俱乐部主席任⼴峰，全英学联主席张峰，英中经济⽂化促进会会⻓李⾂。参加活动的还有其它专业机构包括英国华⼈⾦融家协会，英华会计协会等。与会来宾包括英中律师协会会员，在英华⼈社团，商会，在英中国企业负责⼈，及本次线上活动的技术承办单位KEducation。

英国律师协会主席David Greene发表了热情⻛趣的演讲。他提到⽜年意为诚实，勤劳，勤恳正是法律职业⼈⼠的特质，在英的中国律师特别起到了关键的作⽤并对华⼈社区和团体做了杰出的贡献。David Greene提到了过去⼀年对律师的挑战并赞扬了所有律师的付出，尤其对英中律师协会的法律咨询服务给与了充分的肯定和⿎励。

童学军公使兼总领事感谢并⾼度赞赏英中律师协会和会员在过去⼀年的抗疫⽃争中的贡献，尤其在宣传反种族歧视⽅⾯起到的积极作⽤。童学军公使⿎励协会继续发挥正能量和其它团体⼀起推进中英两国关系的持续发展。

中国太平保险英国总监于晓东代表在英中国企业致辞。他提出，在英中国企业⽇趋成熟并呈多元化，中英双⽅投资继续上升趋势，英国为中国在欧洲的最⼤投资地。于晓东强调太平保险在英已有35年历史，并为众多中国在英企业提供服务。中国在英企业在疫情之下，仍然保持积极的态度和⻓远的⽬标。展望未来，于晓东提到太平保险和英中律师协会⼀样将会继续为中国企业提供可靠专业的服务。

威斯敏斯特市⻓及威斯敏斯特市议员Nickie Aiken MP ，特别为活动录制了拜年视频，祝福⼤家新年快乐。

英中律师协会的副会⻓王瑞华⼥⼠做了协会过去两年的⼯作总结。她提到协会秉承为更多华⼈提供服务的宗旨⾃2017年2⽉起提供每周⼀次的免费法律咨询服务从未间断，咨询服务在2020年新冠肺炎期间以线上咨询的⽅式持续为在英华⼈提供法律援助服务，起到了不可或缺的作⽤。协会会员在2019年为来英访问的北京师范⼤学的同学们提供了“我的法律从业历程”的讲座，激励更多的华⼈涉及法律⾏业。同年10⽉，协会组织了关于⾹港基本法的讨论和讲座。王瑞华副会⻓特别提到了，疫情期间由朱⼩久会⻓去年⼆⽉号召倡议反英华侨华⼈⾃我隔离两周，并在五⽉推出的反种族歧视讲座收到了华⼈议员的⼤⼒⽀持并在英国各界引起了很⼤的反响。展望2021年，英中律师协会将与英国律师协会更多的合作并继续为在英华⼈提供更深⼊的服务。

庆祝活动还穿插了抽奖环节，奖品是由Aviair UK提供的点解消毒仪。奖品颁发给10名幸运的志愿者作为对志愿者⼯作的⽀持与奖励。
最后庆祝活动播放了精彩的⽂艺节⽬，包括英中表演艺术舞蹈学院的舞蹈《好运来》和《Uptown Funk》；英国华⼈⻘年合唱团的合唱《⼤⻥》；德印太极学院李晖表演的《雪地太极扇》，以及伦敦华⼈爱乐合唱团演唱的《可可⻄⾥的⽉光》。

晚会由英中律师协会管委张佩智和会员刘凯南主持，并在朱⼩久会⻓的结束词中落下帷幕。

本篇内容来自微信公众号：我在英伦深呼吸

（刘凯南供稿）

On February 18^th 2021, the UK Society of Chinese Lawyers (UKSCL) held its annual Chinese New Year Reception online to celebrate the year of the Ox. The event was well supported by the UK community and was attended by over 100 people including its members.

Dr Xiaojiu Zhu MBE, President of the UKSCL, first addressed the guests with a welcome note. The Ox in Chinese culture represents strength, hard-work, and determination, and whilst the pandemic has affected us all, Dr Zhu believes this means we will only come back stronger as we embrace the characteristics of the Ox. 

Dr Zhu in her welcome note gave thanks to the distinguished guests of the night, including Mr David Greene, President of the Law Society; Ms Stephanie Boyce, Vice-President of the Law Society, Mr Xuejun Tong, Minister Counsellor and Consul General from the Chinese Embassy; Ms Nickie Aiken, Member of Parliament for Cities of London and Westminster; Mr Xiaodong Yu, Director and General Manager of China Taipin Insurance UK Co Ltd; Jun Tong, Deputy Assistant General Manager of China Insurance UK Co Ltd; Madam Liang Xiao, Deputy General Manager and Chief Retail Banking Officer of Bank of China (UK) Limited; Ms Yan Wu, Manager of Chinatown Branch of Bank of China (UK) Limited; Mr Chuting Tang,  Chairman of London Chinatown Chinese Association; Guangfeng Ren, CEO of UK Chinese Entrepreneurs; Feng Zhang, Chinese students and Scholars Association UK; Chen Li, Head of UK China Economic and Culture Promotion Association, along with other professional organisations, including the Chinese Association of Financial Executives in the UK and the UK Society of Chinese Accountants. Special thanks to K Education, technical support provider of the event. 

David Greene, President of the Law Society, gave an enthusiastic speech as the first speaker of the night. Mr Greene drew comparisons between the legal profession and the characteristics of the Ox, such as honesty, hard work, and diligence, and expressed that Chinese lawyers in the UK have played a key role and have made outstanding contributions to the Chinese community in the UK. Mr Greene especially praised UKSCL’s weekly pro bono clinic at the Chinese Community Centre, and thanked all the Chinese lawyers who took part and made the weekly sessions possible.

Minister Counsellor and Consul General Mr Xuejun Tong thanked and applauded UKSCL’s contributions in the fight against the pandemic in the past year, and the positive effects in promoting anti-racism campaigns. Mr Tong further encouraged UKSCL to play a positive role and work with other organisations to foster the continued relationship between China and UK development. 

Mr Xiaodong Yu, Director of China Taipin Insurance UK, delivered a speech on behalf of the Chinese enterprises in the UK. Mr Yu commented that Chinese companies in the UK are becoming more mature and diversified, and with investments between China and UK continuing to rise, UK is becoming the largest spot for Chinese investment in Europe. Mr Yu emphasised that Chinese companies in the UK maintain optimism in its long-term goals despite the pandemic. Looking ahead, Taiping Insurance will continue to provide reliable and professional services to Chinese companies, as it has done so in the past 35 years in the UK. 

Ms Nickie Aiken, Member of Parliament for Cities of London and Westminster, though unable to attend the celebrations due to her parliamentary duties, recorded a special video for the event and wished everyone a happy New Year. 

Lastly, Ms Ruihua Wang, Vice-President of the UKSCL, gave a summary of UKSCL’s achievements over the last two years. One of UKSCL’s aims is to promote legal education in the local Chinese community, and since February 2017, UKSCL runs a weekly pro-bono legal clinic at the Chinese Community Centre. This clinic plays an indispensable role in providing legal aid services for the Chinese community, and since the pandemic, this service has moved online to continue the weekly consultations without interruption. In 2019, UKSCL members held a lecture on ‘My Legal Practice Journey’ to visiting students from Beijing Normal University, in an effort to inspire more Chinese students to get involved in the legal profession. In October of the same year, UKSCL organised a panel discussion on the Hong Kong Basic Law. Ms Wang also highlighted that Dr Zhu was calling the returning Chinese from China to self-isolate for two weeks since February 2020 via YouTube and Chinese media, and organised an online anti-racism seminar in May 2020 with nearly nine thousand people attending, then the launch of the iCAAR (International Chinese Alliance Against Racism). In 2021, UKSCL will continue to cooperate with the Law Society of England & Wales to provide further service to the Chinese community in UK.  

The evening celebration also included a raffle draw for UKSCL members who have previously volunteered at the pro-bono clinic as a token of appreciation and reward for their hard work. 10 lucky members were selected for an electrolysis sanitiser, provided by Aviair UK.  

The evening of celebrations concluded with an array of musical performances, including ‘Good Luck Comes’ and ‘Uptown Funk’ by UK China Performing Arts, ‘Big Fish’ by the Divine Melody Choir, ‘Gongfu Fan’ by Deyin Tiajiquan Institute, and ‘Moonlight from Kekexili’ by London Chinese Philharmonic Choir. 

This event was hosted by UKSCL committee member Lily Cheung and UKSCL member Kainan Liu, and came to an end with Dr Zhu’s closing remarks. 

21 March 2021

Lily Cheung

The virtual forum “One World, One World-How to Cope with Racial Discrimination in Epidemic Situations” recently brought together international Chinese communities via social media platform Wechat on the 23rd of May. By Jian Ping Sun

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, racial discrimination and hostile behaviours experienced by overseas Chinese and other ethnic minorities have soared. The UK Beijing Association, the UK Society of Chinese Lawyers, and the Roundtable of Southern California Chinese-American Organizations co-hosted a Wechat lecture to talk about responding positively to racial discrimination during the pandemic. Dr Zhu Xiaojiu MBE, President of the UK Society of Chinese Lawyers and Surrey Councillor Wang Xingang strongly advised pursuing legal action to definitively say no to racial discrimination.

Dr Zhu Xiaojiu gave an invaluable keynote to clarify the concept of racial discrimination for the audience from a legal and moral perspective. She encouraged the international audience to stand up together to safeguard the rights, interests, and dignity of overseas Chinese around the world. Responding passively strengthens the harmful impact of racial discrimination on society. Responding actively by reporting incidents to the police and taking legal action is part of everybody’s duty to protect themselves, their families and their society. Overseas Chinese are representatives of China and valuable contributors to their adopted country. Refusing to tolerate racism at an individual level protects the great strength and indomitable spirit of their motherland and safeguards the best interests of their adopted home. This novel virus does not distinguish between races and does not respect borders.

The number of reported cases is the essential statistic. Only when the statistic is significant will the government and local authorities take notice and respond with appropriate protection measures.

The most important way to report racism or hate crimes is to notify the police at the time of the incident or as soon as possible afterwards. This can include calling the police or making an online report. Chinese people in the London area can also directly contact the London Police Chinese and Southeast Asian Employees Association. If Chinese children encounter racial discrimination in the school, parents can report it to the school headteacher. If Chinese staffs encounter racial discrimination in the workplace, they can report it to their line manager and human resources.

Dr Zhu also encouraged overseas Chinese to get involved in their local communities to help the vulnerable and key workers during this pandemic. This could include delivering food and medicines to those who are shielding, fundraising for NHS staff welfare initiatives or sewing masks and scrubs for carers in nursing homes to name but a few ideas. Kindness and compassion speak louder than ignorance and hate.

Mr Wang Xingang, local councillor and Conservative campaigner, encouraged the audience to write to or email their local councillors and MPs about their experiences and seek support from charities. He re-emphasized racial discrimination is not only a criminal act but also a topical issue that MPs are deeply concerned about. Local MPs are elected to represent their constituents in parliament. Their job is to listen to their constituents’ concerns and to advocate for them. Chinese people need to inform their local MP of the racial discrimination happening currently in their community. Only when their MP is aware and fully informed can the MP appropriately address the issue to improve their community at a local and national level.

Speaking from his own leadership experiences in efforts to improve his local community, Wang Xingang reflected on successful integration into mainstream society. He encouraged Chinese people to take up volunteering and get involved with their local council and school governor boards.

Cases of racial discrimination in the UK have gradually increased over the past five years. From 2018 to 2019, there were 103,000 reported hate crime cases in the UK. Since the start of the COVID19 pandemic, reported crimes of xenophobia increased significantly. There were 360 crimes reported in 2019. There were 267 crimes in the first 3 months of the pandemic alone. Currently key UK legislature includes the Public Security Law, 1986. This includes 12 related laws to punish racial hatred and religious hatred. Under this law, the minimum prison sentence is 6 months and the maximum is 7 years. The “Crime and Disruption of Public Order Law” declared in 1998 included nine related laws to punish racial and religious discrimination, with an increase in the maximum period of imprisonment from 7 years to 14 years.

The third keynote was delivered by Ms Zhang Sujiu, the Honorary Chairman of the Roundtable of Southern California Chinese-American Organizations. She discussed current racial discrimination in the United States. Ms Zhang said that as the virus has spread to all part of the US, the inadequacy of the American government’s response has caused tremendous harm to its people. Currently, the number of infected patients and deaths in the United States account for one-third of the world’s death total. A group of prominent American politicians, including the US president, attempted to discredit China to evade responsibility for the consequences of their failure. They frequently used discriminatory, inflammatory terms such as “Chinese virus” and “Wuhan pneumonia” to concoct statements such as “the virus originated from the Wuhan Virus Research Institute” and “spread to the United States.” The US president played a direct role in aiding xenophobia to spread as fast as the virus throughout the US. Ms Zhang called on the international audience to challenge racial discrimination together.

Although COVID19 is a new disease, racial discrimination is an old disease that the world has long struggled to treat. International laws such as the United Nations’ International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the European Union’s European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom are well-established. Overseas Chinese are encouraged to seek help from the police and their local embassy if required. The law is on their side.

“One World in the World-How to Cope with Racial Discrimination in Pandemic Situations” was chaired by Li Hai, President of the UK Beijing Association, He Jianfei, Secretary of the Beijing Overseas Friendship Association and Zhang Jinlong, Chairman of the UK Chinese Business Association. Over 8000 Chinese people from around the world participated in this innovative event.

By Jian Sun

Ruihua Wang, associate at the London office of Linklaters, discusses the event celebrating the Chinese New year at the Law Society on 26 February.

The reception

Attended by over a hundred guests, the reception was opened by Dr. Xiaojiu Zhu, the chairwoman of UKSCL. The event had generous support from the Law Society, Bank of China, China Taiping Insurance and Cruickshanks Solicitors. Dr. Zhu addressed in her opening speech that the UK qualified Chinese lawyers play a unique and significant role in building stronger relationship between the two countries and particularly in better assisting language communication, culture integration and promoting legal awareness.

Speeches

Mr. Rehman Chishti, Conservative member of parliament for Gillingham and Rainham, emphasized that the British government is very keen to develop a closer and stranger tie with China and they firmly believed that the Chinese community has made substantive contribution to the development of the UK society.

In counsellor Fei’s speech, he acknowledged the important role that UKSCL plays in developing better relationship in trade, investment, culture and legal communication between two countries. He also mentioned a number of notable initiatives of UKSCL.

Firstly, UKSCL has assisted the Chinese embassy in launching an online legal guide to equip the Chinese community and Chinese businesses with basic knowledge of the UK legal system, and how to live and work in the UK, and provided a legal database with Chinese speaking UK qualified legal specialities.

Secondly, UKSCL set up a joint Wechat group, which enables timely responses to enquiries from the Chinese citizens coming through the Chinese Embassy. Thirdly, counsellor Fei personally initiated an annual forum attended by 20 lawyers and 10 embassy staff discussing on how to better serve the Chinese community in the UK.

The message from Joe Egan, president of the Law Society, highlighted the positive contribution which Chinese lawyers make to the legal profession, both in the UK and internationally.

In the message from Rt Hon Mark Field MP, minister of state for Asia and the Pacific at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, he congratulated and commended UKSCL for the service it provides and the values it promotes.

Ms. Ruihua Wang, the deputy chairwoman of UKSCL, summarised the achievements of UKSCL in 2017 with three key phrases: bridging the gap, professionalism and social responsibility. The first key phrase ‘bridging the gap’ is demonstrated by actives that we organised for exchanging ideas between judiciary/lawyer in both UK and China. On May 19 2017, we had an in-depth discussion with a delegation from the prosecution service of Shan Xi province, China on topics in criminal procedural law such as sentence reduction, bailing. The second phrase ‘professionalism’ has been manifested by a well-received talk by Dr. Colin Ong, probably the only mandarin speaking Queen’s Counsel and a well-respected barrister and arbitrator. The talk focused on ‘how the Chinese business should conduct international commercial arbitration under China’s one belt one road initiative’ and was generously sponsored by Howard Kennedy LLP.

UKSCL also hosted an immigration law talk on 21 December 2018 by three members of UKSCL, specialists in immigration. The third key phrase ‘social responsibility’ is demonstrated by the legal aid programme lunched by UKSCL on 18 February 2017 at the Chinese Community Centre in London’s Chinatown, which provides free legal advice to the underprivileged people in the Chinese community.

Plans for the year ahead

UKSCL aims to expand the portion of the Chinese Community who can benefit from our pro bono service. We will reach out to Chinese students in London and small Chinese businesses and encourage them to access our service. We also have plans to give further lectures on topics such as employment law, landlords and tenants and family law, some of the most common topics we come across in the pro bono project.

UKSCL welcome suggestions and advice on how we can do a better job in expending our memberships, collaborating with other organisations and serving the wider society.

Reporter: Xiaolong Zhao

2019年2月18日，英中律师协会 （The UK Society of Chinese Lawyers ）举办了一年一度的新年酒会。

本次新年酒会得到了英国各界人士的支持， 包括英国律师协会副主席 Simon Davis、上议院议员在野党前工党议员 Lord Pendry、中国大使馆童学军公使兼总领事、中国银行英国分行副行长肖亮、伦敦华埠商会主席邓柱廷等上百人出席。与会来宾还包括英中律师协会会员（大都为取得英国律师资格的华人华侨）、华人企业社团、商会、中国银行以及中国在英公司各行各业的负责人和中文学校的代表，还有一些其他团体的代表，如英国华人金融家协会、英中企业家协会、英华会计协会等。本次酒会得到了英国律师协会、中国银行、中国太平以及凯江律师事务所的鼎力支持。

在酒会上，英中律师协会回顾了2018年英中律师协会所做的工作成果，并展望2019年工作计划。英中律师协会会长朱小久博士致欢迎词并隆重介绍了到场贵宾。朱小久强调了华人律师在致力于推进中英全面交流时在语言沟通、文化融合以及法律支持等方面所起到的独特且有效的桥梁作用。

在酒会上，贵宾们还做了简短精彩的讲话，英国律师协会副主席 Simon Davis 高度赞赏了协会在中英两国法律交流中所起到的积极作用，并祝贺朱小久在2018年荣获大英帝国员佐勋章（MBE），他称这是对朱会长在中英法律交流以及推广在英华人社区工作的充分肯定和鼓励。

童学军公使兼总领事高度赞赏英中律师协会在支持中英双边贸易、教育、旅游和文化交流方面发挥的重要作用。童学军公使提到协会在促进中英关系中的重要桥梁作用，并着重强调在英华人律师在推进中英两国法律实务交流中所做的积极贡献。

中国银行英国分行肖亮副行长提到中国银行英国分行在华人社区致力于宣扬法律普及以及不同文化之间的融合。另外，肖行长也高度认可协会的三大宗旨即：沟通协作、专业性和社会责任，并高度赞赏协会组织的免费法律咨询服务。

虽然有一些贵宾因公务原因未能与会，但他们也发来了祝贺信。英国政府东亚地区外务部部长 Mark Field在贺信中高度评价英中律师协会在中英交流工作中所起到的积极作用，并强调英国政府致力于发展良好健康的英中关系。

最后，王瑞华副会长对一年来的工作进行了总结，包括：2017年2月18日启动的英中律师协会和华人社区中心联合为华人华侨提供的定时定点的免费法律咨询；2018年5月和11月协会和中国驻英大使馆合办为侨服务法律讲座，在移民、非法劳工、房产及欧盟数据保护条例等领域为侨胞提供的法律指导；2018年11月，协会律师代表和中国驻英领事馆举办的第三届座谈，分享法律实务经验更好地为侨服务；在与国内律师同行的交流方面，协会也积极发挥着桥梁作用，2018年11月协会协助浙江法学会在英国律师协会举办了一场主题为“社会组织如何有效参与政府多元化纠纷解决”的座谈会，英协的国际部长亲自参加并参与探讨；同时协会也积极为在英华人律师举办交流和培训的平台，协会在2018年11月与12月分别在金杜律师事务所与贝克·麦坚时律师事务所举办“实务律师与公司法务职业对比”及“诉讼融资和科技领域的争端解决”为主题的圆桌讨论会。此外，工作报告还展望2019年的工作计划，2019年英中律师协会计划在华人社区中扩大服务受益的潜在群体，并将加强与中国学生和中国企业的联系，普及法律知识。

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