Prior to the creation of Legal Aid Ontario, what legal aid services were available to vulnerable low-income Ontarians and how did the system gradually evolve? Those unable to afford legal counsel relied primarily on volunteer lawyers offering their services directly, through charities or via their Law Society.
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”.
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”.
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