• E4J University Module Series: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

• Module 3: Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• • Key terms
  • Topic 1.  Introduction to the international standards and norms
  • Topic 2.  Identifying the need for legal aid, and the benefits and costs of legal aid
  • Topic 3.  Key components of the right of access to legal aid
  • Topic 4.  Access to legal aid for those with specific needs
  • Topic 5.  Models for governing, administering and funding legal aid
  • Topic 6.  Models for delivering legal aid services
  • Topic 7.  Roles and responsibilities of legal aid providers, and other criminal justice officials
  • Topic 8.  Quality assurance and legal aid services
  • Summary
  • References

• Exercises

• Case studies

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

• Guidelines to develop a stand-alone course

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• First published in January 2019
  

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  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

References

 

• Penal Reform International and Association for the Prevention of Torture (2015). Women in detention: a guide to gender-sensitive monitoring . London: APT.
• Cape, Ed (forthcoming). "Defense Rights, Duties, Norms and Practices in Common Law and Civil Law Jurisdictions." In D. Brown, J. Turner and B. Weißer, eds. Oxford Handbook of Criminal Process. Oxford University Press.
• England and Wales (1984). Police and Criminal Evidence Act, Code of Practice for the Detention, Treatment and Questioning of Persons by Police Officers.
• International Legal Foundation (2016). Measuring Justice: Defining and Evaluating Quality for Criminal Legal Aid Providers . New York: ILF.
• Maru, Vivek and Varun Gauri, eds. (2018) Community Paralegals and the Pursuit of Justice. Cambridge University Press.
• United Nations (2013). Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems . Vienna: UN.
• United Nations (2010). Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders with their Commentary (the Bangkok Rules) . Bangkok: UN. 
• United Nations (2015). Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) . New York: UN.
• UNODC (2014). Handbook on Women and Imprisonment . New York: UNODC. 
• UNODC (2015). Information note for criminal justice practitioners on non-custodial measures for women offenders . Vienna: UNODC.
• UNODC (2017). Model Law on Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems with Commentaries . Vienna: UNODC.
• UNODC (2015). Training Curriculum on Women and Imprisonment. Vienna: UNODC.
• UNODC and UNDP (2014). Early access to legal aid in criminal justice processes: a handbook for policymakers and practitioners . New York and Vienna: UNODC and UNDP.
• UNODC and UNDP (2016). Global Study on Legal Aid: Global Report . New York and Vienna: UNODC and UNDP.
• UNODC, UN Women, UNDP and OHCHR (2018). A Practitioner's Toolkit on Women's Access to Justice Programming . New York, Vienna and Geneva: UNODC, UN Women, UNDP and OHCHR.

 

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