Quality and Accessible Legal Aid in Ukraine Project – Page 24

Announcement of the competition of projects on “Integration of Primary and Secondary Legal Aid at the Level of Territorial Communities”

Quality and Accessible Legal Aid in Ukraine Project, implemented by the Canadian Bureau for International Education with the support of the Government of Canada, jointly with the Human Rights and Justice Program Initiative of the International Renaissance Foundation announce a competition of projects on “Integration of Primary and Secondary Legal Aid at the Level of Territorial Communities”.

19.04.2016

Three-day training course for lawyers-trainers of free legal aid system was completed in Kyiv

On 3-5 October 2015, the first part of the training for over fifty lawyers-trainers/moderators on the exchange of experience between lawyers who provide free secondary legal aid was held in Kyiv. The topic of the training was “Special defense procedures in criminal proceedings Involving crimes against national security and military crimes. Defense in criminal proceedings involving illicit traffic in drugs. Defense procedures during covert investigative (search) actions”.

19.04.2016

“There are 13 different provincial systems of free legal aid in Canada”, – said Larissa Bezo

“Most of the problems that shift to the field of criminal law start with family law matters”, – said Oksana Kikot, Manager of the QALA Project, analysing the Canadian experience of the operation of the free legal aid system.

19.04.2016