Con legal aid

The guidelines pay particular attention to improving the quality of the legal aid provision, and for this purpose, they suggest putting in place mechanisms and measures to ensure the quality of legal aid schemes, both in terms of their general functioning and, more importantly, in terms of the legal services delivered by legal aid providers

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has adopted a set of guidelines for the 47 member States to help them improve the functioning of national systems of legal aid in the fields of civil and administrative law

The Committee of Ministers stresses the importance of establishing an

The guidelines define “Legal aid” as the provision of legal advice, assistance and/or representation by a legal aid provider at either no cost or subject to a financial contribution

Legal aid is only one way to guarantee access to justice