Społeczna potrzeba nieodpłatnej pomocy prawnej – beneficjenci regulacji ustawowej
The Social Need for Free Legal Aid – Beneficiaries of Statutory Regulation

Summary/Abstract: On 5 August 2015 the law on free legal aid and on legal education was passed. The present study is devoted to one of the most significant and controversial problems in the adopted regulation, namely its subjective scope. The range of beneficiaries of this law – the entitled persons – was assessed from the standpoint of whether the adopted solutions fulfill the objectives stipulated in the bill in question: provision of legal aid at the pre-trial stage to persons who cannot, because of their financial or life status, afford to purchase this kind of services in the free market. The paper also discusses the categories of persons who are not covered by the law and those who are classified as entitled persons while they could pay the costs of legal advice. Furthermore, the solutions adopted in the law were compared with the results of empirical studies, and the role of information campaigns was emphasized: their aim is to make the persons concerned realize the need to use a lawyer’s help and to inform those entitled about centers offering free legal aid.

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