Two Cheers for the Law

1972 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-41
Author(s):  
Spencer Coxe
Keyword(s):  
Massive Resistance ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Cost

Radicals of both the right and the left prefer not to work within the system of law, which they find unresponsive to today's needs. A lack of confidence in the courts grows as judges and juries reflect community sentiment instead of the law, and court rulings are openly defied when there is massive resistance. The cost and time involved in bringing a case to court are major obstacles to the poor and the uneducated. Judges of varying intelligence, character, and political standing make decisions contradictory to one another.

Protecting the Desperate: The Regulation of Payday Lending

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-176
Author(s):  
Andrew J Serpell
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Credit ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Payday Lending ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Payday Loans ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Credit Contracts ◽  
The Cost

Payday loans are small-amount, short-term, unsecured, high-cost credit contracts provided by non-mainstream credit providers. Payday loans are usually taken out to help the consumer pay for essential items, such as food, rent, electricity, petrol, broken-down appliances or car registration or repairs. These consumers take out payday loans because they cannot — or believe that they cannot — obtain a loan from a mainstream credit provider such as a bank. In recent years there has been a protracted debate in Australia — and in several overseas jurisdictions — about how to regulate the industry. Recent amendments to the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 (Cth) — referred to in this article as the 2013 reforms — are designed to better protect payday loan consumers. While the 2013 reforms provide substantially improved protection for payday loan consumers, further changes to the law may be warranted. This article raises several law reform issues which should be considered as part of the 2015 review into small amount credit contracts, including whether the caps on the cost of credit are set at the right level, whether the required content and presentation of the consumer warnings needs to be altered, whether more needs to be done to protect consumers who are particularly disadvantaged or vulnerable and whether a general anti-avoidance provision should be included in the credit legislation.

scholarly journals PENDATAAN PENERIMA ZAKAT KANTOR BAZNAS KABUPATEN PROBOLINGGO BERBASIS ANDROID GIS

JOUTICA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 287
Author(s):  
Muslim Alamsyah ◽  
Mochammad Firman Arif
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Android Application ◽  
Data Collection Methods ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Presidential Decree ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Collection Methods

Zakat is a number of assets that must be issued by Muslims to be given to groups who have the right to receive, such as the poor and the like, according to those stipulated by sharia. The law of zakat is obligatory for every Muslim who has fulfilled certain conditions. The National Zakat Amil Agency (BAZNAS) is the official body and the only one formed by the government based on RI Presidential Decree No. 8 of 2001 which has duties and functions to collect and distribute zakat, infaq, and alms. The purpose of making this research is to build an android application for GIS zakat assistance map (BAZNAS) in probolinggo district. This study uses data collection methods used in this study through observation, which is collecting data obtained from existing documents or stored records, both in the form of transcript notes, books, newspapers, plunging directly to the location to take pictures, and so on. Output targets of this study are in the form of an application for collecting data on zakat assistance from an Android-based Baznas office and will be published in non-accredited national journals. The application can be used by someone who wants to send donations via Smartphone easily. As well as the results of this application, it can map the locations of recipients of Zakat and Donors according to the coordinates of points of different colors. With the application, it can help channeling Zakat in Probolinggo district. Keywords: Zakat, Baznas, Android, GIS

scholarly journals Pro Bono Legal Aid by Advocates: Guarantee of Justice for the Poor

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 537-552
Author(s):  
Chairani Azifah
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Pro Bono ◽  
The Law ◽  
Problem Formulations ◽  
The Right

The implementation of legal aid is a manifestation of Indonesia as a legal state that guarantees the human rights of citizens to equality before the law which is guaranteed in the 1945 Constitution. Within the framework of implementing this citizen's human rights, the provision of free legal aid is, among other things, obligated to advocates based on Article 22 Law on advocates and their implementing regulations. From this, two problem formulations were made as follows: What is the juridical review of the provision of pro bono legal aid? And what is the role of advocates in providing pro bono legal aid? This research is based on normative legal research, which is a research conducted by reviewing and analyzing legal materials and legal issues related to the problems studied. The results of the author's discussion found that free legal aid is the right of the poor to obtain the same justice as other communities, so that the protection of their rights is well fulfilled and the principle of equality before the law. Advocates are obliged to provide free legal aid to justice seekers, and to obtain free legal assistance, justice seekers must submit a written application to an advocate organization or legal aid institution.

scholarly journals Legal Aid by the State as a Constitutional Right of the Poor: Problems and Challenges in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-196
Author(s):  
Ari Wibowo ◽  
Michael Hagana Bangun
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Law ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Right

The provision of legal aid is one way to realize access to law and justice for the poor people provided by the state on the mandate of the constitution. Several regulations regarding legal aid have been issued by the state through the Act and its implementing regulations as well as from the Supreme Court or the Constitutional Court through the Supreme Court Regulations and the Constitutional Court's decisions. Legal aid is the constitutional right of every citizen to guarantee legal protection and guarantee equality before the law stipulated in Law Number 16 of 2011, the State is responsible for recognizing and protecting the human rights of every individual without differing backgrounds so that everyone has the right to be treated equally before the law is contained in Article 28D of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia. For the poor who experience legal problems in the form of injustice, they can request legal assistance from legal aid institutions that are regulated in legislation. The purpose of providing legal aid is to guarantee and fulfill the right for Legal Aid Recipients to gain access to justice, to realize the constitutional rights of all citizens in accordance with the principle of equality in law, to ensure the certainty that the implementation of Legal Aid is carried out equally across the territory of the Republic of Indonesia. , and to create an effective, efficient and accountable court.

Proportionality and Force in International Law

1993 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Gail Gardam
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Law Of Armed Conflict ◽  
The Law ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Cost

Proportionality is a fundamental component of the law on the use of force and the law of armed conflict—the jus ad bellum and the jus in bello. In the former, it refers to a belligerent’s response to a grievance and, in the latter, to the balance to be struck between the achievement of a military goal and the cost in terms of lives. The legitimate resort to force under the United Nations system is regarded by most commentators as restricted to the use of force in self-defense under Article 51 and collective security action under chapter VII of the UN Charter. The resort to force in both these situations is limited by the customary law requirement that it be proportionate to the unlawful aggression that gave rise to the right. In the law of armed conflict, the notion of proportionality is based on the fundamental principle that belligerents do not enjoy an unlimited choice of means to inflict damage on the enemy. Since the entry into force of Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts, proportionality has been both a conventional and a customary principle of the law of armed conflict.

scholarly journals BANTUAN HUKUM BAGI MASYARAKAT TIDAK MAMPU DALAM PERSPEKTIF TEORI KEADILAN BERMARTABAT

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Tri Astuti Handayani
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Unequal Treatment ◽  
Sufficient Knowledge ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right

<p><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p>Bantuan hukum adalah salah satu upaya mengisi hak asasi manusia terutama bagi lapisan termiskin masyarakat. Konstitusi menjamin hak setiap warga negara mendapat perlakuan yang sama di muka hukum, termasuk hak untuk mengakses keadilan melalui pemberian bantuan hukum. Orang kaya dan mempunyai kekuasaan, dengan mudah mengakses dan mendapatkan “keadilan”, melalui tangan-tangan advokat yang disewanya. Tidak demikian halnya kelompok masyarakat miskin, mereka tidak mempunyai kemampuan untuk memahami hukum  dan tidak mampu untuk membayar advokat,  hal demikian menyebabkan tidak ada perlakuan yang sama di muka hukum untuk mengakses keadilan.<strong></strong></p><p><strong><em>Abstract</em></strong><br /> Legal aid is an effort to fulfill the human rights, especially of the poorest groups of the society. The Constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to equal treatment before the law, including the right to access justice through legal aid. The haves and those having power would easily access and obtain justice, through the hands of advocates employed. That is not the case with the poor who do not have sufficient knowledge of the law and can not afford to pay for lawyers. This situation creates an unequal treatment before the law to access justice.</p>

scholarly journals MASALAH HUKUM IMPLEMENTASI PEMENUHAN HAK ATAS LAYANAN BANTUAN HUKUM BAGI MASYARAKAT MISKIN (Law Problems In Implementing of Right Fulfillment on Legal Aids To The Poor)

Jurnal HAM ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Hakki Fajriando
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Legal Counsel ◽  
West Kalimantan ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Aids Information

Setelah diundangkannya UU Nomor 16 Tahun 2011 Tentang Bantuan Hukum, masih banyak masyarakat miskin yang belum mendapatkan pendampingan hukum yang memadai. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menggambarkan permasalahan yang dihadapi dalam implementasi pemenuhan hak-hak masyarakat miskin untuk mengakses layanan hukum sejak diberlakukannya UU No. 16/2011 di Indonesia. Kegiatan penelitian dilaksanakan tahun 2015 di Provinsi Kepulauan Riau, Jakarta, Kalimantan Barat, dan Gorontalo. Data kualitatif dikumpulkan dengan menggunakan metode studi literatur dan wawancara mendalam, yang kemudian dianalisis dengan metode triangulasi. Studi ini menemukan bahwa pemenuhan hak bantuan hukum bagi masyarakat miskin masih dihambat oleh budaya masyarakat dan aparat penegak hukum yang masih belum mendukung pemberlakuannya, kurangnya informasi, serta kurangnya ketersediaan sumber daya pendukung lainnya. Disarankan agar pemerintah meningkatkan kuantitas, kualitas, dan distribusi infrastruktur layanan bantuan hukum. meningkatkan sosialisasi informasi terkait bantuan hukum dari pemerintah, serta mendorong pemerintah daerah untuk meningkatkan peranan dalam mendukung program tersebut.AbstractAfter enacted the Law Number 16/2011 concerning Legal Aids, still find the poor has not accompanied by an adequate legal counsel, yet. The research aims to describe issues faced in implementing of rights fulfillment to the poor to access law services since stipulated the Law Number 16/2011, in Indonesia. This research was conducted in the provinces of Kepulauan Riau, Jakarta, west Kalimantan, and Gorontalo, in 2015. Qualitative data collecting with literature research method and in-depth interview analyzing with a triangulation method. It found that the right fulfillment of legal aids to the poor still held up by society culture and law enforcers because of less information, lack of other resources availabilities. It suggested that government promote quantity, quality, and infrastructure distribution of legal aids services, increase disseminate concerning to legal aids information from government, and encourage local government to intensify role to that program.

Violence, U.S.A

1968 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin E. Wolfgang
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Inadequate Response ◽  
Value System ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Subculture Of Violence

Violence in America today is more than the society wishes to tolerate, but should be considered historically and cross culturally. Labor and other riots in the nineteenth and twenti eth centuries were probably more destructive than current disturb ances. America is not a "sick" society but does have violence within an essentially nonviolent culture. The fear of being victimized from crimes of violence is real but greater than statistics on victimization indicate. To riot is a violation of the law and partially a reflection of inadequate response from government and other agencies to legitimate grievance and dissent. To resort to violence is a sign of despair and a failure to have alternative avenues of expression. A subculture of violence exists in many cities and is generated from the value system associated with the poor, the deprived, the residents of segrega tion. Dispersal of the population from this subculture is the major solution for its elimination. The task of a democracy is to guarantee the right to dissent, to respond to protest, and to fortify freedom while maintaining social control.

scholarly journals MASALAH HUKUM IMPLEMENTASI PEMENUHAN HAK ATAS LAYANAN BANTUAN HUKUM BAGI MASYARAKAT MISKIN (Law Problems In Implementing of Right Fulfillment on Legal Aids To The Poor)

Jurnal HAM ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hakki Fajriando
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Legal Counsel ◽  
West Kalimantan ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Aids Information

Setelah diundangkannya UU Nomor 16 Tahun 2011 Tentang Bantuan Hukum, masih banyak masyarakat miskin yang belum mendapatkan pendampingan hukum yang memadai. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menggambarkan permasalahan yang dihadapi dalam implementasi pemenuhan hak-hak masyarakat miskin untuk mengakses layanan hukum sejak diberlakukannya UU No. 16/2011 di Indonesia. Kegiatan penelitian dilaksanakan tahun 2015 di Provinsi Kepulauan Riau, Jakarta, Kalimantan Barat, dan Gorontalo. Data kualitatif dikumpulkan dengan menggunakan metode studi literatur dan wawancara mendalam, yang kemudian dianalisis dengan metode triangulasi. Studi ini menemukan bahwa pemenuhan hak bantuan hukum bagi masyarakat miskin masih dihambat oleh budaya masyarakat dan aparat penegak hukum yang masih belum mendukung pemberlakuannya, kurangnya informasi, serta kurangnya ketersediaan sumber daya pendukung lainnya. Disarankan agar pemerintah meningkatkan kuantitas, kualitas, dan distribusi infrastruktur layanan bantuan hukum. meningkatkan sosialisasi informasi terkait bantuan hukum dari pemerintah, serta mendorong pemerintah daerah untuk meningkatkan peranan dalam mendukung program tersebut.AbstractAfter enacted the Law Number 16/2011 concerning Legal Aids, still find the poor has not accompanied by an adequate legal counsel, yet. The research aims to describe issues faced in implementing of rights fulfillment to the poor to access law services since stipulated the Law Number 16/2011, in Indonesia. This research was conducted in the provinces of Kepulauan Riau, Jakarta, west Kalimantan, and Gorontalo, in 2015. Qualitative data collecting with literature research method and in-depth interview analyzing with a triangulation method. It found that the right fulfillment of legal aids to the poor still held up by society culture and law enforcers because of less information, lack of other resources availabilities. It suggested that government promote quantity, quality, and infrastructure distribution of legal aids services, increase disseminate concerning to legal aids information from government, and encourage local government to intensify role to that program.

scholarly journals Legal Aid in Indonesia: A Study of Legal Aid with a Transcendental Dimension

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-99
Author(s):  
Fanny Dian Sanjaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
The State ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right

Legal aid in Indonesia, particularly in terms of access to justice, legal aid provided by the state for people is still pivoted on positive law. Laws regulating legal aid in Indonesia remain revolving around the number of cases and budget absorption targets given to legal aid institutions that have been verified and accredited by the state for people/groups in need. Verification and Accreditation from the state with parameters written in the law inhibit those who need legal assistance if they are not categorized as the poor. The requirement of the poor to access legal aid implies that access to legal aid for everyone in conflict is far from justice. Access to legal aid is essential since the purpose of the law is justice. Besides, legal aid aims to provide justice for those who do not have law knowledge, in other words, blind to the law. Justice for all is the vein of legal aid which is inseparable from the right of legal aid for those in need. Legal aid can be administered by social institutions/legal aid agencies which should provide access to those who need legal assistance and those who are in dispute, be it poor or rich so that justice for all can be achieved. This research discusses the transcendental dimension of legal aid. This study used a descriptive research method intending to analyze legal aid from legal aid institutions viewed from the study of legal philosophy and legal aid with transcendental dimensions.

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