WORLD BANK

Legal Services for the Poor: Best Practice Handbook  (2003)

This material is a summary of work experience of organizations that provide legal aid to low-income society groups. Material is presented through such notions as mission and role of legal aid organization providing services to people with low income (clients, enlightenment, advocacy, strategic litigations, etc.); cooperation and creation of networks; strategic planning of activities; management, including financial, etc.

PUBLIC INTERESTS LEGAL INITIATIVE (PILI)

Access to justice checklist (2004)

A comparative checklist has been designed to provide methodological support to the countries at the stage of creation of a system of free legal aid. Comparative chart reveals both positive and negative sides of different systems, and also provides expert comments and a short analysis. It also takes a look at free legal aid systems existing in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Lithuania, Hungary and Israel.

International Standards in the Sphere of Free Legal Aid Provision: Extracts from Texts and Annotations of Documents (2005) (in Russian)

The present document is a selection of extracts from international documents texts and resumes of decisions of UN Human Rights Committee, European Court of Human Rights, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

RESEARCH IN THE SPHERE OF ACCESS TO FREE LEGAL AID IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

Access to Justice in Central and Eastern Europe (2003)

The present publication is a collection of articles, analytical materials and other documents that describe various national legal aid systems, give an overview of norms of international law that touch upon provision of access to justice, report of work of the European Forum on access to justice, annotation of reports of nine countries of Central and Eastern Europe on access to legal aid and a comparative analysis based on these reports, as well as other practical materials on valuation and reform of legal aid system.

Legal Aid Reform and Access to Justice. - Open Society Justice Initiative (2004)

This publication is dedicated to the reform of the legal aid system in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, South Aftica, Latin America. Basic attention is given to the questions of state granting legal aid to indigent people accused of commiting a crime.