Civil Legal Aid Resources
Civil Legal Aid Resources
This section includes papers, reports, studies, management and delivery tools related to civil legal aid.
The Comprehensive Legal Needs Study is a project of the Consortium on Legal Services and the Public of the American Bar Association (ABA).
This report of the English and Welsh Civil and Social Justice Survey, by Pascoe Pleasence, Nigel Balmer, Tania Tam, describes the main findings from the 2006 interviews for the English and Welsh Civil and Social Justice Survey.
Sustainable legal aid and access to justice: A supply chain approach
19.12.2010 Civil Legal Aid Resources
This paper written by Maurits Barendrecht and Peter Van den Biggelaar describes an interactive consultation process that was organized to develop proposals for increasing access to justice while limiting costs for governments as well as for users of the legal system.
The Standards for Providers of Civil Legal Services to the Poor (2002 Edition) were released by the American Bar Association (ABA) Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants.
The paper „South African Models of Legal Aid Delivery in Non-Criminal Cases” by David McQuoid Mason addresses how legal aid is provided in civil cases in South Africa and to what extent the current approaches are effective.
The report „A seamless approach to service delivery in legal aid: fulfilling a promise or maintaining a myth?” by Diane Martin reconsiders legal aid services in light of the promises of poverty eradication that informed the original clinic movement and raises questions about the efficacy of existing legal aid services.
This paper written by Peter J.M. van den Biggelaar looks at the steps which led to the development of Legal Services Counters in the Netherlands,
Written in 2002 by Roger Smith, this paper reviews the various considerations in ways of organising publicly funded legal services, making reference to the experience of various jurisdictions.
The paper „Legal Workers and paralegals - new avenues for services? Access to Justice and the introduction of the NFP Sector” was written by Pete Sanderson and Hilary Sommerlad and presented at the International Legal Aid Group (ILAG) conference that took place on 6-8 June 2007, Antwerpen.
The manual „Innovative Fundraising Ideas for Legal Services”, (2004 Edition) was prepared by Meredith McBurney for the ABA.