Materials on legal aid

Project "Strengthening Access to Justice for the Poor in the Russian Federation" (2008-2012)
funded by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development as an administrator of the Grant provided by the Government of Japan through the Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF).

Materials on legal aid

LEGISLATION AND BILLS

• Legal Aid Bill (submitted by the President of the Russian Federation) to State Duma on 21/06/2011. (Available at the web-site of State Duma, only in Russian)
• Bill dd. 11 April, 2009 “On State System of Legal Aid in the Russian Federation” (available only in Russian)
• Bill dd. November, 2010 “On Legal Aid in Russian Federation”
• Regional Law "On Legal Aid for Certain Categories of Citizens in Leningrad Region"

PUBLICATIONS. Series “Access to Justice”

• Mazaev D. V. Overview of Legislative Framework for Legal Aid in Russia: Analytical Report
  Moscow: "Akvarel", 2011 - 68 p.

• Success Stories. Protecting Rights within the Project on Access to Justice in Leningrad Region
  StP., 2011. – 40 P.

• Collection of Reports “Legal Aid and Improving Access to Justice in Russia”
  М.: “LegalStudies.RU: Consulting and Communications”, 2010. – 214 p.

• Collection of Reports "Legal Aid in Civil Matters - Models of Interaction between State and Civil Society: International and Russian Experience"
  Moscow: "Akvarel", 2011 - 375 p.

• Sergey Kruchkov "Legal Aid and Reaching Out the Clients: Outreach Campaign of the Project "Strengthening Access to Justice for the Poor in the Russian Federation"
  Moscow: “Akvarel”, 2011 – 78 p.

• Irina Kalinina and Elena Burmitskaya. “Recommendations on the Operation of Legal Aid Centers”
  М.: “Akvarel”, 2011 – 48 p. (with DVD disk).

• Different Aspects of Legal Aid Delivery
  StP., 2011. – 36 p.

PRESENTATIONS

Presentations, International conference “Legal Aid in Civil Matters – Models of Interaction between State and Civil Society: International and Russian Experience”

• Peter van den BIGGELAAR. Legal Aid in the Netherlands
• Sue MсCAFFREY. Modernizing the Delivery of Legal Aid Services in Ontario
• Victor ZAHARIA. Legal Aid Delivery in Moldova: Progress, Challenges and Expectations
• Avrom SHERR. Standards and Consistency. Measuring the Quality of Legal Work
• Marco de MORPURGO. Third Party Litigation Funding: a Private Alternative to Legal Aid for Increasing Access to Justice
• John A.TULL. Assuring Quality and Effectiveness in Legal Assistance Offered to Low-income Persons: The American Experience
• Don SAUNDERS. History and Current Issues Facing Civil Legal Aid in the United States
• Olga POMAR. The Legal Services Practice in the United States: a Close-Up View of a Legal Aid Services Office in New Jersey
• Steven GIBENS. How to Study Legal Aid Systems: Belgium as an Example
• Matthias KILIAN. Civil Legal Aid in Germany
• Masanori TANABE. Experience of Japanese Legal Aid Center
• Mariana CHICU. A New Model of Legal Aid? Legal Aid in Bulgaria, Georgia and the Republic of Moldova
• Inga ZALUTSKAYA. System of Legal Aid in Russia
• Elena REZNIK. State Legal Aid Bureau in Sverdlovsk Region
• Svetlana KRYLOVA. State Legal Aid Bureau. Moscow Region. Reporting Period: January, 2006 – 30 November, 2010
• Elena ABROSIMOVA. A “Clinical” Way of Legal Aid Delivery
• Olga SIDOROVICH and Vladimir MAZAEV. Project “Strengthening Access to Justice for the Poor in the Russian Federation” - Interim Results
• Dmitry SHABELNIKOV. Development of System of Legal Aid in Non-Criminal Matters in Russia in 2005 – 2010: Success, Failures and Perspectives
• Anton ALFEROV. Coordination of Legal Aid Delivery at the Regional Level

Other presentations

• Amit Mukherjee. World Bank Support for Legal Aid
• Legal Aid in the Netherlands (drafted by Institute of Public Interest Law Institute) available only in Russian
• Irina Kalinina. Models and Standards of Legal Aid to the Poor: Russian and International Experience (presentation)
• Marina Agaltsova. Foreign Experience in Legal Aid Delivery
• Maxim Timofeev. The right to a fair trial in the case-law of ECHR (access to justice, openness, equality of arms, independence and impartiality)