Model Law on Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems, with commentaries
By: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Contributors: Maṭar, Muḥammad Yaḥyá, consultant; Elefante, Marina, consultant; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Publisher: United Nations
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Vienna
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9789211338607
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Legal aid; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Description: "The present Model Law on Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems with Commentaries was developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) ... The draft Model Law was prepared for UNODC by Mohamed Y. Matar, Clinical Professor of Law at Qatar University College of Law and Executive Director of the Protection Project, a not-for-proft human rights research and training institute located in Washington, D.C., and Marina Elefante, Director of Rule of Law Programs at the Protection Project, as consultants"--Acknowledgements.
Notes: "The present Model Law on Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems with Commentaries was developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) ... The draft Model Law was prepared for UNODC by Mohamed Y. Matar, Clinical Professor of Law at Qatar University College of Law and Executive Director of the Protection Project, a not-for-proft human rights research and training institute located in Washington, D.C., and Marina Elefante, Director of Rule of Law Programs at the Protection Project, as consultants"--Acknowledgements.

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Table of contents: title: Purpose, definitions and scope of application; title: Guiding principles; title: Legal aid beneficiaries and legal aid providers; title: The Legal Aid Authority; title: Procedures; title: Financial provisions; title: Rules and regulations; title: Final provisions.