scholarly journals Improving Access To Justice Through Legal Aid: Exploring The Possibilities Of ‘Exceptional Case Funding’ Clinics In University Law Schools

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-110
Author(s):  
Emma Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Exceptional Case ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Advice ◽  
British State

This article focuses on the role of universities in establishing law clinics to assist individuals to make Exceptional Case Funding (ECF) applications. The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) removed many categories of civil matters from the scope of legal aid, reducing the number of people entitled to state-funded legal advice and assistance. To replace provision for the categories removed from scope, LASPO introduced ECF to provide a ‘safety net’ for cases where human rights would be breached if legal assistance was not available. To obtain legal aid through the ECF scheme, legal aid providers or individuals must apply to the Legal Aid Agency, the department of government within the Ministry of Justice that deals with the administration of legal aid. The article considers how analysis of ECF clinics can contribute to knowledge about the work of universities in facilitating access to justice through clinical legal education, particularly in the context of cuts to legal aid expenditure. It argues that ECF clinics present an opportunity to involve students while engaging — rather than replacing — the responsibility of the British state to provide legal aid.

scholarly journals The Opportunities and Challenges of Student Paralegal within University Legal Clinic at PTKIN

AL- ADALAH ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-248
Author(s):  
Deni K Yusup ◽  
Burhanuddin Hamnach ◽  
Cate Sumner
Keyword(s):  
Community Service ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Limited Time ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
The Third ◽  
Strong Motivation ◽  
The University ◽  
Clinic Program

This paper is motivated by the role of the university legal clinic under the spirit of implementing the third of university role in the field of community service. In practice, legal aid services at universities are not different from general aid agencies in general. One of the uniqueness of the university legal clinic program is the direct involvement of student paralegal in helping the clients to get legal aid services within the university and court. The student paralegal encounters various opportunities and challenges. The main opportunities, they have their passion and strong motivation to become justice fighters for justice seekers, while they have also the main challenges such as limited time, facilities, knowledge, and legal skills. However, the existence of student paralegal has proven to be very helpful for the clients not only in processing applications and registering cases in court but also in assisting clients in the form of consultation and legal assistance during non-litigation and litigation. Therefore, the university legal clinic program needs to be further strengthened and developed at PTKIN because it has proven positive implications for helping underprivileged people and justice seekers to get access to justice.

scholarly journals PERAN KALANDRA LAW OFFICE SEBAGAI PEMBERI BANTUAN HUKUM DI KOTA SEMARANG

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Adhi Budi Susilo ◽  
Khifni Kafa Rufaida
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
The World ◽  
Tangible Evidence ◽  
The Law

<p>Lahirnya Kalandra Law Office sesuai dengan SK. Menkumham No. AHU-0051440.A.H.01.07 Tahun 2016 diharapkan dapat memberikan akses terhadap keadilan (<em>access to justice)</em> dan kebersamaan dihadapan hukum <em>(equality before the law)</em>. Bantuan hukum merupakan suatu jawaban terhadap adanya kebutuhan masyarakat atas adagium “hukum tajam kebawah, hukum tumpul kebawah” ini didukung dengan lahirnya Undang-Undang  No.16 Tahun 2016 tentang Bantuan Hukum. Penelitian ini bermaksud untuk mengetahui peran <em>Kalandra Law Office</em> dalam memberikan bantuan hukum di kota semarang serta hambatan-hambatan yang mempengaruhi dalam peranannya. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah normatif-empiris yang mengkaji peraturan tertulis Undang-Undang No. 16 Tahun 2011 Tentang bantuan hukum dalam <em>access to justice.</em> Kalandra <em>Law Office </em>diharapakan menjadi asa baru ditengah keputusasaan masyarakat awan dalam memperjuangkan hak-haknya dimata hukum. Oleh karena itulah Kalandra <em>Law Office</em> memiliki andil yang besar dalam <em>access to justice.</em> Sehingga dapat menumbuhkan harapan baru di dalam dunia peradilan tetapi juga menjadi bukti nyata akan keadilan yang sama bagi siapapun dimuka hukum</p><p>The birth of Kalandra Law Office in accordance with SK. Menkumham No. AHU-0051440.A.H.01.07 Year 2016 is expected to provide access to justice and equality before the law. Legal assistance is an answer to the community's need for adage "sharp law down, blunt law down" this is supported by the birth of Law No. 16 of 2016 concerning Legal Aid. This study intends to find out the role of Kalandra Law Office in providing legal assistance in Semarang city and the obstacles that affect its role. The method used in this research is normative-empirical study of written regulations of Law No. 16 of 2011 concerning legal assistance in access to justice. Kalandra Law Office is expected to become a new hope amid the desperation of the cloud community in fighting for their rights in the eyes of the law. That's why Kalandra Law Office has a big contribution in access to justice. So that it can foster new hope in the world of justice but also be tangible evidence of equal justice for anyone before the law.</p>

Clinical Legal Education: A Virtual Mode of Access to Justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
V.S. Gigimon ◽  
Shruti Nandwana
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Virtual Classrooms ◽  
Dual Purpose ◽  
Working Model ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Virtual Mode

Legal education, all over the world uses a mix of practical and theoretical means to train students. For purposes of practical training, specialized legal clinics are established by legal education institutions to train the students to apply the classroom learnt law in live cases. These legal clinics serve dual purposes, first, of training students in the practical aspects of the law and second, providing access to justice to people in areas where it is difficult to get legal help and where reaching institutions of justice delivery is difficult. The pandemic situation prevailing world over now has had deep impacts in imparting legal education. The physical classrooms have turned into virtual classrooms, delivering only theoretical education and leaving doubts in the mind of students due to lack of practical training resulting from non-functioning of legal aid clinics in this situation. In order to ensure access to justice in India during the time of pandemic, the judiciary has taken recourse of virtual courts, whereby the listing and hearing of cases which require urgent hearing are done online. The same methodology has also been adopted by the National Legal Aid Service Authority by conducting virtual Lok Adalats where cases are entrusted to them . By studying the same mode of virtual courts and virtual Lok Adalats, the present paper aims to devise a working model to ensure that clinical legal education is continued in India during these times of pandemic, and that legal aid clinics work efficiently to ensure that people are not deprived of their right to legal assistance. The working model proposes a collaboration between the legal aid clinics of the universities and colleges and the justice delivery institutions to ensure dual purpose of legal aid clinics is met. The model will also be tested in the institution, and a pan India plan of action for implementing this model would be devised.

Legal Clinics and Access to Justice in Croatia: Perspectives and Challenges

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-108
Author(s):  
Zvonimir Jelinic
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
The Future ◽  
Further Development ◽  
The Way

In this article, I dwell upon the Croatian system of free legal aid in civil and administrative matters. The background of the system, its problems and deficiencies are firstly discussed. Primary attention is on the legal framework for legal clinics, their position within the system of legal education, the importance of their role within the system of free legal aid, types of legal assistance that legal clinics can provide and the way they are obtaining financial support for their operations. We shall also try to foresee the future of Croatian clinical legal education under the present normative scheme and propose some steps that, we firmly believe, have the actual capacity to promote further development of clinical legal education within the system of free legal aid.

scholarly journals Clinical Legal Education: A Virtual Mode of Access to Justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 62-82
Author(s):  
V.S. Gigimon ◽  
Shruti Nandwana
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Virtual Classrooms ◽  
Dual Purpose ◽  
Working Model ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Virtual Mode

Legal education, all over the world uses a mix of practical and theoretical means to train students. For purposes of practical training, specialized legal clinics are established by legal education institutions to train the students to apply the classroom learnt law in live cases. These legal clinics serve dual purposes, first, of training students in the practical aspects of the law and second, providing access to justice to people in areas where it is difficult to get legal help and where reaching institutions of justice delivery is difficult. The pandemic situation prevailing world over now has had deep impacts in imparting legal education. The physical classrooms have turned into virtual classrooms, delivering only theoretical education and leaving doubts in the mind of students due to lack of practical training resulting from non-functioning of legal aid clinics in this situation. In order to ensure access to justice in India during the time of pandemic, the judiciary has taken recourse of virtual courts, whereby the listing and hearing of cases which require urgent hearing are done online. The same methodology has also been adopted by the National Legal Aid Service Authority by conducting virtual Lok Adalats where cases are entrusted to them . By studying the same mode of virtual courts and virtual Lok Adalats, the present paper aims to devise a working model to ensure that clinical legal education is continued in India during these times of pandemic, and that legal aid clinics work efficiently to ensure that people are not deprived of their right to legal assistance. The working model proposes a collaboration between the legal aid clinics of the universities and colleges and the justice delivery institutions to ensure dual purpose of legal aid clinics is met. The model will also be tested in the institution, and a pan India plan of action for implementing this model would be devised.

scholarly journals SINERGISITAS PERAN DAN TANGGUNG JAWAB ADVOKAT DAN NEGARA DALAM PEMBERIAN BANTUAN HUKUM CUMA-CUMA

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Ade Irawan Taufik
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Role Of The State

<p>Dalam mewujudkan prinsip-prinsip negara hukum, advokat diwajibkan memberikan bantuan hukum bagi orang atau kelompok miskin, namun pada kenyataanya kewajiban advokat dalam memberikan bantuan hukum cuma-cuma terdapat banyak kendala dalam prakteknya, oleh karena itu diperlukan campur tangan negara. Permasalahannya adalah bagaimana konsepsi bantuan hukum yang selama ini terjadi dan bagaimana sinergisitas arah bantuan hukum yang berpihak pada masyarakat miskin dan bagaimana sinergisitas peran negara dan advokat dalam pemberian bantuan hukum cuma-cuma bagi orang atau kelompok miskin. Dengan menggunakan metode penelitian yuridis normatif dapat disimpulkan bahwa konsepsi bantuan hukum yang terjadi selama ini yang bersifat individual dan konvensional dengan pengaturan yang bersifat parsial dan tidak tersistem sehingga membawa pada suatu kondisi belum terwujudnya suatu perubahan sosial yang berkeadilan dan kesadaran hukum masyarakat serta mudahnya akses untuk mendapatkan keadilan tersebut. Peran negara hadir dalam membentuk regulasi dalam bentuk UU Bantuan Hukum 2011, yang memberikan suatu konsep baru bantuan hukum. Keberadaan UU Bantuan Hukum semakin menguatkan peran advokat dalam memberikan bantuan cuma- cuma, sehingga peran dan kewajiban advokat yang diatur dalam UU Advokat 2003 dapat bersinergi dengan peran negara dalam menyelenggarakan bantuan hukum sebagaimana diatur dalam UU Bantuan Hukum 2011.</p><p>In realizing the principles of the rule of law, advocates were oblige to provide legal assistance to people or the poor, however the liability of advocates in giving free legal aid encounter many obstacles in practices, therefore, the intervention of state were required. The problem is the conception of legal aid that occurs and how is the synergy between advocates and states in giving a free legal aid and pro-poor legal aid. By using the normative research method, it can be concluded that legal aid conception occurred during thistime is individualized and conventional with partial and unsystemized se ƫ ng lead to a condition of unestablished just social change and public awareness as well as easy access to justice. The Role of states presents by establishing the regulation in form of Legal Aid Act 2011, which provides a new concept of legal aid. The existence of Legal Aid Act strengthens the role of advocates in providing free assistance, so that the roles and responsibili ties set out in the Advocate Act 2003 can be synergized with the role of the state in legal aid as set out in the Legal Aid Act 2011.</p>

scholarly journals Peran Kalandra Law Office Sebagai Pemberi Bantuan Hukum Di Kota Semarang

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Adhi Budi Susilo ◽  
Khifni Kafa Rufaida
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
The World ◽  
Tangible Evidence ◽  
The Law

<p>Lahirnya Kalandra Law Office sesuai dengan SK. Menkumham No. AHU-0051440.A.H.01.07 Tahun 2016 diharapkan dapat memberikan akses terhadap keadilan (<em>access to justice)</em> dan kebersamaan dihadapan hukum <em>(equality before the law)</em>. Bantuan hukum merupakan suatu jawaban terhadap adanya kebutuhan masyarakat atas adagium “hukum tajam kebawah, hukum tumpul kebawah” ini didukung dengan lahirnya Undang-Undang  No.16 Tahun 2016 tentang Bantuan Hukum. Penelitian ini bermaksud untuk mengetahui peran <em>Kalandra Law Office</em> dalam memberikan bantuan hukum di kota semarang serta hambatan-hambatan yang mempengaruhi dalam peranannya. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah normatif-empiris yang mengkaji peraturan tertulis Undang-Undang No. 16 Tahun 2011 Tentang bantuan hukum dalam <em>access to justice.</em> Kalandra <em>Law Office </em>diharapakan menjadi asa baru ditengah keputusasaan masyarakat awan dalam memperjuangkan hak-haknya dimata hukum. Oleh karena itulah Kalandra <em>Law Office</em> memiliki andil yang besar dalam <em>access to justice.</em> Sehingga dapat menumbuhkan harapan baru di dalam dunia peradilan tetapi juga menjadi bukti nyata akan keadilan yang sama bagi siapapun dimuka hukum</p><p>The birth of Kalandra Law Office in accordance with SK. Menkumham No. AHU-0051440.A.H.01.07 Year 2016 is expected to provide access to justice and equality before the law. Legal assistance is an answer to the community's need for adage "sharp law down, blunt law down" this is supported by the birth of Law No. 16 of 2016 concerning Legal Aid. This study intends to find out the role of Kalandra Law Office in providing legal assistance in Semarang city and the obstacles that affect its role. The method used in this research is normative-empirical study of written regulations of Law No. 16 of 2011 concerning legal assistance in access to justice. Kalandra Law Office is expected to become a new hope amid the desperation of the cloud community in fighting for their rights in the eyes of the law. That's why Kalandra Law Office has a big contribution in access to justice. So that it can foster new hope in the world of justice but also be tangible evidence of equal justice for anyone before the law.</p><p><em> </em></p>

scholarly journals Differentiation of the concept of legal aid

1970 ◽  
pp. 98-102
Author(s):  
Oksana Krushnitska
Keyword(s):  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Legal Decisions ◽  
Legal Advice ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
Evidence Analysis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

This article discusses the relationship between legal, legal aid and legal assistance. The lack of a clear distinction between the term "legal assistence" and the terms "legal aid" and "legal" has led, in our observations, to the conclusions of individual authors and entire institutions that Ukraine's law enshrines in fact a triple system legal aid. Studies have shown that the legislator distinguishes between "legal aid" and "legal" (or legal) assistance, depending on the subject of assistance. Positive trends in the replacement of legal aid terminology with professional legal aid have been identified and shown. At he article notes that the development and establishment of independent professional legal assistance continues in the future. A large number of reforms and changes, especially at the constitutional level, on the one hand, contribute to improving and improving the development of the institution of professional legal assistance, and on the other hand, there are many contradictions and inconsistencies in this regard, because the introduction of new terms is always a supporter for its introduction and against it. Legal aid is the most successful term and should be interpreted as a multidimensional legal practice aimed at ensuring the rule of law and the realization of the rights of each person who enters into a specific legal relationship, the content of which is the implementation of legally defined means, including legal advice and clarification of the rights and procedures for their implementation, assistance in the preparation and filing of applications, petitions, complaints and other legal documents, initiation and participation in procedural actions and proper recording of their course and results, assessment of the adherence, validity and admissibility of evidence, analysis of the legality of legal decisions, taking measures to remedy infringed cases. to, damages caused offense. It also includes some of the problems that need to be addressed by further consolidating professional legal assistance in other regulations to ensure their compliance with the Basic Law of Ukraine.

scholarly journals Keeping up with change: no alternative to teaching ADR in clinic. An Australian perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Weinberg
Keyword(s):  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Clinical Education ◽  
Alternative Dispute Resolution ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Client Needs

<p>Over the last 30 years alternative dispute resolution (ADR) has become more prominent in Australian legal practice due to the need to reduce the cost of access to justice and to provide more expedient and informal alternatives to litigation. As legal educators, we need to ask: how should we be preparing law students entering practice for these changes? How can we ensure that once they become lawyers, our students will not rely entirely on litigious methods to assist their clients but instead look at alternatives for dispute resolution?</p><p>In this paper, I argue that there is no alternative to teaching ADR in clinic in order to address client needs and to ensure that students engaged in clinical education are prepared for changes in legal practice today. I show that the increasing focus upon ADR in Australian legal practice represents a challenge for law schools, and that legal educators need to ensure they are educating students about ADR.</p><p>I argue that it is important to determine whether ADR is being taught to students undertaking clinical legal education in ways that will enhance their preparation for legal practice. I will show that there is a need to explore: whether ADR is being taught within clinical legal education, the strengths and weaknesses of existing approaches, and how the teaching of ADR within clinics can be improved.</p>

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