Tezy dotyczące reformy dostępu do nieodpłatnej pomocy prawnej, zwolnienia z kosztów sądowych i zapewnienia pełnomocnika z urzędu
Theses on the reform of access to free legal aid, exemption from court fees and ex officio representation

Summary/Abstract: The issues of access to free legal aid, exemption from court fees and ex officio legal aid have beenso far the subject of several sociological and legal studies and analyses, as well as the subject ofseveral systemic projects financed either by the European Union or by grant-giving organisationsbut all these activities dealt only with a part of these problems and no attempt has been made sofar to propose a comprehensive reform of access to law in Poland.After many years of research and analysis of these issues, it seems necessary to draw conclu-sions and attempt to comprehensively regulate all issues related to access to justice or, morebroadly, access to law. The article discusses the diagnosis of the legal and formal situation related to access to law inPoland. All the assessed issues indicate that some of the statutory solutions do not match eachother, the regulations do not comply with the criteria (or even lack thereof), and the free legal aiddoes not reach all those in need.In a state governed by the rule of law, it becomes urgent and necessary to sort out fundamentalissues such as citizens’ access to the law. Hence, the proposed solutions aim to unify the rules ofaccess to the law while simplifying this access and making better use of the system resources.

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