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This book is a worldwide survey of legal aid containing more than seventyresponses from ministries of justice attorney generals lawsocieties barcouncils and individual lawyers to a detailed questionnaire. The results setout here in summary form are probably the most complete survey of its kindsince the Lane and Hillyard edition of the Directory in 1985.The Editor of The New International Directory of Legal Aid former legal aidsolicitor Peter Soar says In preparing this new edition I have learnt fromprevious users that the Directory is a valuable aid for Legal Aid Boards andlaw schools as well as individual lawyers.In these pages you will find the ground work of legal aid systems in some ofthe most diverse legal jurisdictions from the Common Law countries of Englandand the Commonwealth to those which employ the approach of the Napoleonic Code.Here are systems adapted to the needs of the inhabitants of Caribbean islandscentral European and Baltic states emerging African peoples the successors toancient Indian empires and countries of the Pacific Rim.The different forms of legal aid are of interest to practitioners and academicsbut the claims of the book go further than that. Just and fair societies dependon the maintenance of the rule of law. If the legal system and in the lastresort the courts themselves are not within the reach of all citizens thentalk of their rights is empty. If poor weak or powerless members of societyare denied access to the courts because of lack of means or if that accessdepends on the willingness of some lawyers to undertake cases pro bono it isdifficult to argue that in that state human rights are any morethan formsrather than reality. If lawyers themselves exchange their independence forinvolvement in the very process of litigation socalled no win no fee canit be said that freedom is not compromised?Here the reader can judge what in his or her opinion is the «
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