Organisation and Management of a Legal Aid System

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 contains descriptive materials on the organization and management of national systems of free legal assistance in criminal and non-criminal matters, as well as internal management tools of national legal aid institutions. The materials listed below include general overviews of domestic free legal assistance systems, as well are more specific materials on various aspects of their management, such as defining the eligibility for legal aid, payment or funding of legal aid. The materials in this section are listed in an alphabetical order starting with the general and comparative overviews and following with materials related to specific jurisdictions.

Buying into Litigation – a Shonky Product We Can’t Get Enough of, 2001, by D. Smith

Compendium of Standards for Indigent Defense Systems, 2001 ed., by the Institute for Law and Justice

Conditional fees agreements: legal aid and access to justice, 1999, by R. Moorhead

Delivering Poverty Law Services: Lessons from British Columbia and Abroad, 2004, by A. Long and A. Beveringe

Demand Induces Supply? Identifying Cost Drivers in Criminal Defense Work, by E. Cape and R. Moorhead

Development of a civil legal aid system: issues for consideration, 2005, by D. Manning

Guidelines on Contribution Fees for Costs in Counsel in Criminal Cases, 2004, by ABA

Improving Access to Justice: Legal Services Funding and Private Bar Involvement in Public Interest Lawyering around the World, 2000, by D. Goldstein and others

Innovative Fundraising Ideas for Legal Services, 2004 ed., by ABA

Legal Aid in Non-Criminal Matters: traditional and non-traditional methods of delivery, 2005, by D. McQuoid-Mason

Models of Organisation of the System for Provision of Legal Aid, 2002, by R. Smith

Old wine in new bottles: legal aid, lessons and the new Europe, 2005, by R. Smith