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Transforming the Legal Aid System - Final Report and Recommendations
Legal Aid Review - November 2009
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CONTENTS
Transforming the legal aid system
More efficient machinery for the legal aid system
Problems with management and governance in the legal aid system
Changing the focus of the legal aid system
- Transformation based on information and benchmarking
- Ensure people know what to expect from their legal aid lawyer
- Meeting people's needs at court and beyond
- Making the most of the teachable moment for first-time defendants and their families
- Barriers to accessing legal aid
- Legal needs of Māori and Pacific peoples
- The benefits if initial advice and assistance
- The problem: fragmented services
- Community law centres
- Duty solicitor scheme
- Police detention legal assistance scheme
People, quality and accountability
- Problems with some lawyers
- Raise the barriers to entry
- Focus on groupings of lawyers
- Incentives for lawyers to maintain competence, quality and integrity
- Training and mentoring of junior lawyers
- Enforcement and sanctions
- Remuneration rates
- Roles and responsibilities for quality and descipline
Procurement of legal aid services
- Bulk funding of groups headed by senior lawyers
- Capitation-based funding
- A role for senior specialist lawyers
Streamlined eligibility assessment for high-volume, low-cost cases
- Prosecution-defence escalation scale
PUBLICATION DETAILS
| Author: |
Legal Aid Review Chairperson, Dame Margaret Bazley DNZM |
| Publisher: | Ministry of Justice |
| Place of publication: | Wellington |
| Date of publication: | November 2009 |
2009 © Crown Copyright
| Contact agency: | Legal Aid Review c/o Ministry of Justice PO Box 180 Wellington legalaidreview@justice.govt.nz |
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