Legal aid in the Low Countries
By: editors, Bernard Hubeau, Ashley Terlouw
Series: Ius commune europaeum -- 130; Ius commune europaeum -- 130.
Publisher: Intersentia; Metro
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cambridge, United Kingdom; [Maastricht]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9781780682563
Subjects: Legal aid
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-374).
Table of contents: title: Legal aid and access to justice: how to look at and evaluate legal aid systems? / Bernard Hubeau and Ashley Terlouw; title: Dutch and Belgian research into disputes and legal services / Marijke ter Voert; title: Legal aid in Belgium and the Netherlands: convergences and differences between two institutional systems / Frédéric Schoenaers, Kathleen Adelaire, Christophe Mincke, Laurent Nisen and Jean-François Reynaert; title: Threats to legal aid and legal assistance in the Netherlands and in Belgium / Lia Combrink, Susanne Peters and Steven Gibens; title: Every little helps? / Mies Westerveld; title: Galanter revisited: Do the 'haves' (still) come out ahead? / Bert Niemeijer; title: Providing legal aid in asylum procedures in the Netherlands: a challenging business? / Tamara Butter; title: Access to legal services for small and medium-sized businesses / Heinrich Winter, Oscar Couwenberg and Marc Hertogh; title: Legal aid and housing issues / Steven Gibens and Bernard Hubeau; title: Legal aid provisions for children and juveniles: formal and quality items / Eric Van der Mussele; title: Equal access to justice through the right to interpretation and translation and legal aid / Yolanda Vanden Bosch; title: The right to legal aid according to the European Court of Human Rights: a study of the rights of undocumented persons / Caroline Forder; title: Differential treatment: do lawyers make the difference? / Ashley Terlouw; title: Modernising the Napoleonic structure of bar regulation / Nienke Doornbos and Leny de Groot-van Leeuwen; title: Independence of the lawyer in the Netherlands and Belgium and conflict of interest / Edward Janssens; title: Legal aid and pro bono work: part of the essence of lawyering? / Stefan Rutten; title: Socio-legal services: the link between legal aid and social work in a democratic market / Steven Gibens; title: E-justice in the low countries / Koen Van Aeken; title: Stepping stones towards a sound legal aid system in the future: concluding remarks / Ashley Terlouw and Bernard Hubeau.