Conference Papers

Introduction

- Judge President Dunstan Mlambo – Chairperson, Legal Aid South Africa & Deputy Minister John Jeffery – Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development in the Government of RSA

Session 1

Ensuring Equal Access to Justice for All: Effective Legal Aid in Criminal Cases

- Anika Holterhof, Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Challenges When Drafting Legal Aid Legislation to Ensure Access to Justice in Developing Countries with Small Numbers of Lawyers: Thinking Outside the Box

- David McQuoid-Mason, President of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association, Professor of Law, Centre for Socio-legal Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Sesson 2

Sesson 3

Engaging the Power of Community to Expand Legal Services for Low-Income Ontarians / Appendix 1 / Appendix 2 /

- Ab Currie, Senior Research Fellow, Canadian Forum on Civil Justice and Research Consultant to the Legal Health Check-up Project

Adoption of the Legal Aid Directive in the EU: Step Forward to End Class Justice?

- Zaza Namoradze, Director of Budapest Office, Open Society Justice Initiative

Session 4

Using Class Actions in Brazil to Protect the Homeless

- Cleber Alves, Professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense & Andre Castro, Chief Public Defender of the State of Rio de Janeiro

Unmet Needs for Legal Aid After Prison in Denmark

- Annette Olesen

Sesson 5