Zoe Chan

Senior Caseworker (Public Law) @lawstopUK | Aspiring Barrister | Scholar @HonSocGraysInn | Vice-Chair @BDABarOrg 🧠| Bi🏳️‍🌈|🇭🇰 Proud HKer (She/Her)

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

I just really want to quit law (bc particularly bad pupillage round) and really love the profession (bc just spent the day talking about housing legal aid) at the same time and I don’t know what to do with myself 🥲

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

I’m at @DoughtyStPublic ‘s Rough Landlord conference - never felt more at home surrounded by other legal aid practitioners. ❤️🥰

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

I’m once again really poorly from mysterious winter cold and managed to order a coffee with my note app. I think that’s all I can achieve today. Pupillage apps be damned

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

Doing some tidying and found my first year public law work… Why am I a public lawyer now, that was AWFUL…. 🤣

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

My client just came in to give me a big hug and said thank you 😭😭😭

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

Looking forward to performing once again at @HonSocGraysInn ‘s Miscellany - it’s promised to be a HONKING good time! Tickets here: https://t.co/aGQkTWg5LV

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

I’m moving house right now and Twitter, I am no longer allowed to buy books. No if or buts I am simply not allowed to buy any more books. Please keep me accountable in this vulnerable time.

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

Pupillage applications now live…… 🙃

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

I don’t think there are words that can express how painful it is to listen to the world’s silence on the fall of Hong Kong.

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

RT @SupportJimmyLai: Listen to the latest on #JimmyLai from @BBCNewshour featuring @MarkSimonHK:

https://t.co/3VbZFAGDlI

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

Legal aid is such a tough area to work in but I’ve met so many colleagues that are genuinely good eggs. I am so lucky to have them in my life and call them my friends too 🫶

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

Born to text
“OMG IM SO PLEASED 4 U!!! 🫶🫶”
Forced to email
“I’m glad the accommodation is suitable for your family Mrs X”

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

Moving from most expensive city to rent in to the third most expensive city to rent in is really a big brain move on my end haha

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

Look, I’m from Hong Kong, where our flats are notoriously small and bad. But I’m here showing my mum pictures of “studios” that are barely a corridor and she’s telling “yeah that’s not legal in Hong Kong” 🤡

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

London’s rental market is actual hell. I’ve been shown a £1300 per month studio with NO OUTSIDE WINDOWS🤡🤪

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

I’m looking at all of you, supposedly diversity supporting law firms / chambers. If you can’t afford to pay your employees a living wage you can’t afford the employee! 👀

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

The London Living Wage has increased to £13.85, a 5.3% rise.

Over 140,000 people working for businesses across London will receive a pay rise, as more than 4,000 employers adopt the new rate.

I encourage more businesses to become London Living Wage employers.

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

I’ve had so many fellow #LegalAid lawyers reach out to me to offer solidarity and support. Thank you. We keep trodding on….!

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

Having one of those weeks where my faith in #LegalAid is tested.
To work in a system so utterly broken that the most vulnerable are being failed?
To turn away people earning barely enough bc of a punishing threshold?
To be struggling w/ £ myself after a 12 hr work day?
☹️

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

@JennettEmily I am small (5’2) and round for reference. Uniqlo is great, as are M&S (youth! School uniforms!) and occasionally Zara. My most worn however was from a charity shop which I appreciate is unhelpful!

[Konstantina Nouka @WigOnWheels]

Oscar, our Head of Research, is waiting to meet all of you! Go and say hi to the team—we have treats and pens! P.S. You can find out more about the BDABar Mini-Pupillage Scheme 2024-2025.

[Zoe Chan @ZoeSTChan]

Having one of those weeks where my faith in #LegalAid is tested.
To work in a system so utterly broken that the most vulnerable are being failed?
To turn away people earning barely enough bc of a punishing threshold?
To be struggling w/ £ myself after a 12 hr work day?
☹️