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The principle and practice of pro bono, or volunteer legal services for the poor and other marginalized groups, is an increasingly important feature of justice systems around the world. Pro bono initiatives now exist in more than eighty countries - including Colombia, Portugal, Nigeria, and Singapore - and the list keeps growing. Covering the spread of pro bono across five continents, this book provides a unique data set permitting the first-ever comparative analysis of pro bono's growing role in the access to justice movement. The contributors are leading experts from around the world, whose chapters examine both the internal roots of and global influences on pro bono in transnational context. Global Pro Bono explores the dramatically expanding geographical and political reach of pro bono: documenting its essential contribution to bringing more justice to those on the margins, while underscoring its complex and contested meaning in different parts of the world.
Legal assistance to the poor. --- Public interest law. --- Practice of law --- Cause lawyers --- Legal services --- Law, Public interest --- Pro bono publico legal services --- Public interest --- Public welfare --- In forma pauperis --- Public defenders --- Judicare --- Law, Poverty --- Legal representation of the poor --- Poor --- Poverty law --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc.
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To a disturbing degree, we are at the mercy of our time and place. While law may provide relief for some of life's troubles, that requires access to justice. Accessibility is the focus of this volume, which expands analysis of access to justice beyond the US and the UK to Asia and other comparative jurisdictions. Chapters characterise access to justice dynamics in these jurisdictions by addressing how access is understood, how it is achieved or not achieved, and how the jurisdiction should improve. The book addresses some issues seldom addressed in analyses of western jurisdictions, such as paid mandatory legal services and mandatory public interest activities, and provides English translations of relevant regulations. The book expands our understanding of access to justice with a comparative perspective, one that allows readers to identify relationships between access and its constitutive environment.
Legal services --- Public interest law --- Legal assistance to the poor --- Judicare --- Law, Poverty --- Legal representation of the poor --- Poor --- Poverty law --- Pro bono publico legal services --- Public welfare --- In forma pauperis --- Public defenders --- Law, Public interest --- Public interest --- Practice of law --- Cause lawyers --- Services, Legal --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law and legislation --- Legal assistance to the poor. --- Justice, Administration of --- Administration of justice --- Law --- Courts
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