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Access to Justice: A Broad Concept Standing to sue and other procedural obstacles Judicial independence and impartiality Fair trial ADR and legal literacy Legal aid Legal Aid In criminal cases, the lack of legal aid: affects the outcome of the cases reinforces a feeling of subordination vis a vis the state hampers civilian control over law enforcement reduces public confidence in the legal system Legal Aid In civil cases, the lack of legal aid prevents individuals from: protecting their rights when the state does not settling their ownership claims legalizing their property participating in legal and economic exchange developing confidence in the legal system Project on Promoting Access to Justice in Eastern Europe: An NGO-Driven Law Reform Strategy Project Partners: Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (Sofia) Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Poland (Warsaw) INTERIGHTS (London) Public Interest Law Initiative in Transitional Societies at Columbia Law School (New York) Funding provided by: The European Commission Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute (COLPI) Main Project Activities Needs assessments Bulgaria: survey of 1,000 case files in district courts opinion survey of 1,000 prisoners on the quality of legal services opinion survey of 200 judicial officers: Poland: opinion survey of judges and prosecutors on quality of legal aid opinion survey of lawyers opinion survey of administrative officers and Ombudsman opinion survey of clients court monitoring Main Project Activities (cont’d) Stakeholders’ forums -- conferences with more than 100 judges, lawyers, prosecutors, members of parliament, governmental officials, representatives of international organizations for Bulgaria -- Sofia, early 2002 for Poland -- Warsaw, spring 2002 Web forum (/access) Regional forum for Eastern Europe -- conference with stakeholders from other Eastern European countries, Budapest, fall 2002 Clinical Legal Education Began developing in Europe and Eurasia in mid - 199