Naslov
Transformation of the Croatian Legal Aid System: From Normative to Functional Insufficiency

Autori
Brozović, Juraj

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
TRANSFORMATION OF CIVIL JUSTICE: UNITY AND DIVERSITY / Uzelac, Alan ; van Rhee, Cornelis Hendrik (Remco) - Dordrecht : Heidelberg : New York (NY) : London : Springer, 2018, 267-281

ISBN
978-3-319-97358-6

Skup
Conference on Transformation of Civil Justice: Unity and Diversity

Mjesto i datum
Dubrovnik, Hrvatska, 28.05.2017. - 02.06.2017

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
legal aid, transformation, access to justice

Sažetak
The establishment of the Croatian legal aid system in civil matters was a consequence of Croatia’s accession to the European Union. Lack of comprehensive assessment of citizens’ needs and lack of systematic research on the costs of legal aid resulted in an insufficient normative background. Uncertainty and the lack of flexibility of some of the provisions of the Legal Aid Act effectively precluded many citizens from obtaining legal aid. Matters were such that the Croatian Constitutional Court intervened by abolishing some of the Act’s key provisions. The new Legal Aid Act was supposed to cope with all the identified problems. Simplification and increased flexibility of threshold rules, in combination with policy changes with regard to financing of legal aid providers, promised a greater possibility to access justice in civil matters. This contribution assesses the extent to which the normative transformation of the Croatian legal aid system was indeed successful in achieving the goals of recent reform attempts.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pravo

POVEZANOST RADA