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Legal Aid in the Low Countries

Book | 1st edition 2014 | Bernard Hubeau, Ashley Terlouw
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Access to justice is a fundamental democratic right for all citizens. In order to exercise this right people need lawyers or other legal professionals to translate their everyday problems and conflicts to the distant legal world and to translate legal language into the ordinary language of the average (potential) litigant. In both countries the legal aid system is under pressure partly due to the economic crisis, partly because of the increasing demand for and use of legal aid. We live in times of austerity and the legal aid system is considered to be too expensive. In both Belgium and the Netherlands we see cutbacks and proposals to reform the legal aid system.

Legal Aid in the Low Countries deals with the system of legal aid in Belgium and the Netherlands. Central questions in the book are whether the conditions for a sound legal aid system are met, especially in the fields of law that mainly concern the ‘have nots’; the main ethical considerations that legal aid providers have to take into account; and the alternatives for legal aid and complementary solutions to enhance access to justice.

The approaches to legal aid are very varied: the socio-legal approach, the policy approach, the critical approach, the legal approach, etc. Legal Aid in the Low Countries is unique in how it brings these disciplines together. It broadens the debate on legal aid and sheds light on these questions from the perspectives of all these disciplines.

The book is written for everyone who is professionally or scientifically interested in legal aid.

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Type of product Book
Format Paperback
EAN / ISSN 9781780682563
Series name Ius Commune Europaeum
Weight 665 g
Status Available
Number of pages xviii
Access to exercice No
Publisher Intersentia
Language English
Publication Date Oct 3, 2014
Available on Jurisquare No
Available on Strada Belgique No
Available on Strada Europe No
Available on Strada Luxembourg No
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  • Table of Contents
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter 1. Legal Aid and Access to Justice: How to Look at and Evaluate Legal Aid Systems?
    Bernard Hubeau, Ashley Terlouw
  • PART 1. DEVELOPMENTS IN RESEARCH ON LEGAL AID
  • Chapter 2. Dutch and Belgian Research into Disputes and Legal Services
    Marijke ter Voert
  • PART 2. ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND LEGAL AID: CURRENT QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS
  • Chapter 3. Legal Aid in Belgium and the Netherlands: Convergences and Diff erences between Two Institutional Systems
    Frédéric Schoenaers, Kathleen Adelaire, Christophe Mincke, Laurent Nisen, Jean-François Reynaert
  • Chapter 4. Threats to Legal Aid and Legal Assistance in the Netherlands and in Belgium
    Lia Combrink-Kuiters, Susanne Peters, Steven Gibens
  • Chapter 5. Every Little Helps?
    Mies Westerveld
  • Chapter 6. Galanter Revisited: Do the ‘Haves’ (Still) Come out Ahead?
    Bert Niemeijer
  • PART 3. LEGAL AID IN SPECIFIC LEGAL MATTERS
  • Chapter 7. Providing Legal Aid in Asylum Procedures in the Netherlands: A Challenging Business?
    Tamara Butter
  • Chapter 8. Access to Legal Services for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
    Heinrich Winter, Oscar Couwenberg, Marc Hertogh
  • Chapter 9. Legal Aid and Housing Issues
    Steven Gibens, Bernard Hubeau
  • Chapter 10. Legal Aid Provisions for Children and Juveniles: Formal and Quality Items
    Eric Van der Mussele
  • Chapter 11. Equal Access to Justice through the Right to Interpretation and Translation and Legal Aid
    Yolande Vanden Bosch
  • Chapter 12. The Right to Legal Aid According to the European Court of Human Rights: A Study of the Rights of Undocumented Persons
    Caroline Forder
  • Chapter 13. Differential Treatment: Do Lawyers Make the Difference?
    Ashley Terlouw
  • PART 4. ETHICAL QUESTIONS
  • Chapter 14. Modernising the Napoleonic Structure of Bar Regulation
    Nienke Doornbos, Leny de Groot-Van Leeuwen
  • Chapter 15. Independence of the Lawyer in the Netherlands and Belgium and Conflict of Interest
    Edward Janssens
  • Chapter 16. Legal Aid and Pro Bono Work: Part of the Essence of Lawyering?
    Stefan Rutten
  • PART 5. ALTERNATIVES
  • Chapter 17. Socio-Legal Services: The Link between Legal Aid and Social Work in a Democratic Market
    Steven Gibens
  • Chapter 18. E-Justice in the Low Countries
    Koen van Aeken
  • CONCLUSION
  • Chapter 19. Stepping Stones towards a Sound Legal Aid System in the Future: Concluding Remarks
    Ashley Terlouw, Bernard Hubeau
  • Bibliography