Author: Legal Aid Review
Title: Transforming the Legal Aid System: Final Report and Recommendations
Summary: The legal aid system is essential to the operation of the New Zealand justice system: its effect extends beyond the individual who is represented by a legal aid lawyer. The legal aid system's operation can help the courts run smoothly, or it can bring the court system to a halt. The range and mix of services, and delivery method, can help people to resolve their problems, or can perpetuate social exclusion. The report found that the New Zealand legal aid system needs to be transformed for it to become more effective. While the legal aid system cannot control externally driven demand, it can control its own efficiency and effectiveness. Currently, the legal aid system faces a number of issues, which are acting together to cause system wide failures.
Details: Wellington, NZ: Ministry of Justice, 2009. 120p.
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Year: 2009
Country: New Zealand
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Shelf Number: 117564
Keywords:
Courts (New Zealand)Lawyers (New Zealand)Legal Aid (New Zealand) |
