Law for the Indigents
“Half of cases received by my Bureau would not have reached the courts if the legal information had been widely available,” said Andrzej Zoll, the Ombudsman. According to Andrzej Kalwas, the Minister of Justice, the Law for the Indigent Act will solve the problem.
Meanwhile according to the participants of the seminar entitled “Access to information, citizen and legal advice and legal support” the public learn about law from films, TV soup operas since in Poland there is no efficient support system. An ordinary Pole does not know how to ask for help and when reaches someone receives incomplete information – considers Łukasz Bojarski from Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. This situation is saved by non-governmental organisations. Advice can be obtain among others in 30 Citizens Advice Bureaux, 18 Legal Clinics and the Batory Foundation. (...)
Jolanta Góra, Legal Newspaper, 7 October 2004.
Created by: Izabela Parczewska, modyfied: Mon Apr 11 14:11:25 2005
