• 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  

 

Additional teaching tools

 

This section includes links to relevant teaching aides such as PowerPoint slides and video material, that could help the lecturer teach the issues covered by the Module. Lecturers can adapt the slides and other resources to their needs.

PowerPoint presentation

• Presentation on Module 3: Access to Legal Aid

 

Video material

The SUPRALAT project was a project funded by the European Commission, designed to develop a training programme for defence lawyers who advise clients who have been arrested and detained by the police. A video explaining the project can be found here. All of the training materials developed by the SUPRALAT project may be accessed here.

SUPRALAT video presentation on the role of the defence lawyer and SUPRALAT video role-play of a lawyer/client consultation are referred to under " Additional Optional Group exercises" of this Module.

The Incarceration Nations Network has produced a six-minute video which also examines the importance of legal aid in the context of pre-trial detention. Nightmare: A film about the Criminalization of Poverty Across the Globe.

 

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