Legal Aid Laws and Regulations

In this section

International Standards on the Right to Legal Aid

Legal Aid Laws and Regulations

Organisation and Management of a Legal Aid System

Models and Schemes for Legal Aid Delivery

Legal Aid Quality Standards and Quality Assurance Mechanisms

Legal Aid Research and Studies

Training materials on criminal legal aid issues

Selected Sources Organisations Working on Legal Aid

This Section includes selected laws and regulations (secondary legislation) on the right to legal aid from various countries of the world. Official texts or translations are provided where available. The laws and regulations are listed in alphabetical order by jurisdiction.

Bulgarian Legal Aid Act and regulations

Dutch Legal Aid Act and regulations

Estonian 2004 State Legal Aid Act, translated by Estonian Legal Language Centre

Finnish 2002 Legal Aid Act and regulations
- 2002 Legal Aid Act
- 2002 Government Decree on Legal Aid Fee Criteria
- 2002 Government Decree on Legal Aid
(all unofficially translated for the Ministry of Justice)

Georgian 2007 Law on Legal Aid

Hungarian 2003 Act on Legal Aid

Irish 1995 Civil Legal Aid Act

Irish 1962 Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Act

Israeli 1995 Public Defender Law

Lithuanian Laws on Legal Aid and regulations

Moldovan 2007 Law on the State Guaranteed Legal aid

Slovenian 2001 Legal Aid Act

South African 1996 Legal aid Amendment Act