legal-education-series-no10-legal-aid-to-the-poor-1983-40-pp

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
The Poor

scholarly journals Clinical legal education in Croatia – from providing legal assistance to the poor to practical education of students

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 373
Author(s):  
Barbara Preložnjak
Keyword(s):  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Procedural Cost ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
The University

<p>Although clinical legal education has a long tradition in common law countries, the countries of the continental European legal system, to which the Republic of Croatia (hereinafter Croatia) belongs, have recognized its importance in the last few years. The first established legal clinic in Croatia was the one of the Faculty of Law at the University of Rijeka. It has been implemented as part of the curriculum for the academic year 1996/1997 and offered to the fourth year students as an elective course entitled “Clinic for Civil Law”. Within the Rijeka Clinic, law students were able to acquire theoretical and practical knowledge, by resolving hypothetical cases, under the supervision and with the support of teachers, lawyers, judges, notaries public and state attorneys. In 2002, with the support of the Institute Open Society from Budapest, the Faculty of Law at the University of Osijek established a legal clinic in the form of practical training for students of the third and fourth year of legal studies. By participating in the clinic’s activity, students of Osijek Law Faculty helped provide legal aid to citizens of lower economic status. This included help in providing general legal information and legal advice, as well as help in covering procedural cost from the funds donated to the Clinic. The lack of financial means that were needed for daily expenditures meant that the Legal Clinic in Osijek was temporarily closed. Nowadays, faculty members of Osijek Law Faculty are trying to solve financial problems and to continue previous good practice in providing legal aid to the poor citizens.</p>

scholarly journals Integration of legal aid activity in law school curriculum: an overview of Bangladesh and India

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Farzana Akter
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Law School ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Indian Law ◽  
Standard Practices

<p align="JUSTIFY">If law students at the formative stage of their career are exposed to legal aid services, they become motivated to deliver the service when they enter into professional life. The purpose of the present article is to examine the current status of the Bangladeshi legal education with regard to the integration of legal aid activity in law school curriculum from international human rights perspective. The article also compares the Bangladeshi legal education with the Indian practice. The article indicates that the Bangladeshi students are not adequately motivated, through academic exercise, to use the law for the poor people. As a result, they learn to become mere lawyers to fight legal cases without acquiring adequate service-mindedness to serve the poor people of the community. The article finally recommends that legal education in Bangladesh is required to explore the potentials of clinical legal education with a compulsory component of legal aid programme. Moreover, Bangladesh can learn from the standard practices of the Indian law schools.</p>

Book Review: Women and justice for the poor: A history of legal aid, 1863–1945

Affilia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-265
Author(s):  
Ruth A. Brandwein
Keyword(s):  
Legal Aid ◽  
The Poor ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals A Critical Analysis of Legal Aid in Bangladesh

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Md. Nannu Mian ◽  
Md. Mamunur Rashid
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Poverty Line ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Legal Knowledge ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
The Government

Legal aid is essentially a mechanism that enables the poor and the vulnerable sectors of the society to be able to enforce their legal rights in order to access a fair and equitable justice in the society. Nowadays, a legal aid can be justifiably said as a crying need to ensure social and legal justice in Bangladesh because most of the citizens are illiterate and they live below the poverty line which incidentally makes matters worse. Due to their financial crisis or lack of legal knowledge they are often precluded to access justice. In recognizing the legal aid as a right, the government has enacted some laws. However, unfortunately those laws are full of weaknesses, loopholes, and procedural complexities which have to be judiciously addressed in the proper legal perspectives. As a matter of fact, legally speaking, much has been said and done, but ironically not much has been practiced. Due to these ever unsettling defects, the ultimate objectives of those laws have frequently failed to ensure enjoyment of the legal aid services among the vulnerable sectors of the society. In this research, an attempt has been made to analyze and find out numerous legal the gaps, loopholes and complexities of the existing laws relating to legal aid services in Bangladesh and frame out a comprehensive solution for ensuring the aid program by adopting the qualitative and the analytical research methods.

Legal aid in South Africa: making justice reality

2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-72
Author(s):  
Hennie van As
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Legal Representation ◽  
Existing Structures ◽  
The Poor ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Right ◽  
Criminal Matters

Democracy and the adoption of a Bill of Rights for South Africa not only brought about political change, but it also created expectations of a better life for all. The Constitution guarantees equality before the law, access to a fair hearing and the right to legal representation in criminal matters, and the Legal Aid Board is one of the institutions tasked with giving effect to these pledges. In order to achieve its objectives and to fulfil its obligations, government embarked upon a process of transformation of existing structures and institutions and the creation of new ones. Although legal aid, and statutory provision therefore, are not new concepts in South Africa, constitutionalization resulted in the restructuring of the Legal Aid Board and changes in the method of delivery of its services. The focus is on rendering legal representation in criminal matters to the neglect of civil and non-legal problems that the poor often face, resulting in the impression that government is merely paying lip service to the promise of access to justice. This lends credence to the perception that the legal system exists in order to protect the interests of criminals. Being a developing country, it is comprehensible that priorities have to be set, but it is also true that optimum use should be made of existing structures and resources in order to deal with the needs for legal aid services as expressed by the recipients of those services. Involving students and local government are two methods that can be employed to address the multi-farious problems experienced by the less fortunate members of society.

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