Monthly Archives: December 2012

Just before Christmas, on 20 December, the UN General Assembly passed unanimously a resolution on the principles and guidelines that states should follow in relation to criminal legal aid. The UK, so truculent in EU negotiations on suspects’ rights in the European Union, joined the general consensus that, no doubt,...

  Ten Lessons for Legal Aid Contracting from Chile Roger Smith This article supplements the comprehensive account of public criminal defence in Chile given by a Chilean public defender, Carolina Rudnick, in the last edition of the ILAG newsletter. Chile has, since 2000, established a whole new system of criminal...