Karyi, V.
(2024).
Ensuring the right to defenсe through the system of free legal aid in Ukraine.
Law, Policy and Security,
2(2),
4-11.
https://doi.org/10.62566/lps/2.2024.04
ISSN 2786-8761 e-ISSN 2786-877X UDC 34
Article
Ensuring the right to defenсe through the system of free legal aid in Ukraine
Received 19.07.2024, Revised 24.10.2024, Accepted 20.12.2024
Abstract
The relevance of this study stems from the need for a comprehensive analysis of the realization of the right to defence through the system of free legal aid in Ukraine, which is an important administrative and legal institution, but still insufficiently studied in terms of accessibility and efficiency. The study aimed to identify the key aspects that contribute to ensuring access to justice, human rights protection, equality before the law, raising legal awareness of the population and social stability. The study used sources of various scientific significance, but their analysis in combination allowed for maximum processing of factual data and proper reasoning and weight of the conclusions drawn. The research confirms the position that the right to legal aid is an integral part of the guarantee of a fair trial in the context of the concept of access to justice, an integral part of an effective and fair legal system, which is not only based on the rule of law, but also an integral guarantee of public confidence in the judicial process. The generalisation of research and results of the legal aid system's activities during its operation allowed us to identify certain aspects that emphasise the importance of the system's activities, including: ensuring access to justice, protecting human rights, ensuring equality before the law, promoting the effectiveness of justice, preventing social injustice, empowering vulnerable groups of the population, ensuring social stability and raising the level of legal awareness of the population. The summarised results and provisions will be an important element for choosing ways and methods to improve the development and operation of the legal aid system and will help to avoid negative situations and patterns in its activities. The results of the study can be used by government agencies to reform the legal system, educational institutions to educate future lawyers, and human rights organisations to improve the effectiveness of protecting the rights of citizens
Keywords:
exercise of the right; right to legal aid; legal aid centre; legal aid bureau; access to justice; non-governmental organizations
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