Introduction
Welcome from Legal Aid South Africa
- 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)
- 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
Legal Aid, Technology and Access to Justice 2017
- Roger Smith
Digital Delivery of Public Legal Information in British Columbia, Canada
Mark Benton, QC, CEO Legal Sservices Society
Rechtwijzer: Why Online Supported Dispute Resolution is Hard to Implement
- Maurits Barendrecht (Hague Institute for Innovation of Law and Tilburg University)
Session 6
Self Help – Digital Legal Rights for Suspects
- Dr Vicky Kemp
Community Legal Education for People Seeking to ‘Buy Themselves a Job’
- Jeff Giddings, Lorelle Frazer̴, Debra Graceπ, Scott Weaven & Michael Robertson
Session 7
Peer Review and Cultural Change: Quality Assurance, Legal Aid and the Legal Profession
- Professor Alan Paterson and Professor Avrom Sherr
- Anna Barlow, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Session 8
Outsourcing Legal Aid in the Nordic Welfare States
- Ole Hammerslev & Olaf Halvorsen Rønning
Session 9
Legal Aid Through the Lens of Developments in the Netherlands
- Herman Schilperoort, Head of Staff, Dutch Legal Aid Board
Making the Case for Civil Legal Assistance in the United States
- Rebecca L. Sandefur American Bar Foundation and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign