Legal Aid in Cambodia: Practices, Perceptions and Needs - PRAJ
Legal Aid in Cambodia: Practices, Perceptions and Needs - PRAJ
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14<strong>Legal</strong> <strong>Aid</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Cambodia</strong>: <strong>Practices</strong>, <strong>Perceptions</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Needs</strong>A Study based on a National SurveyThis section provides an overview of legal aid services offered to whom <strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong> whichgeographic localities. Table 2 shows the location <strong>and</strong> numbers of legal aid lawyers <strong>and</strong> theNGOs they work with at the time of the survey. The numbers show both practic<strong>in</strong>g lawyers<strong>and</strong> members of BAKC <strong>in</strong> their supervised practice year. It should be noted that legal aidlawyers located <strong>in</strong> one prov<strong>in</strong>ce may on occasion provide legal aid services to clients <strong>in</strong>neighbor<strong>in</strong>g prov<strong>in</strong>ces.Table 2: Locations of legal aid offices <strong>and</strong> the number of legal aid lawyers <strong>in</strong> them 17OrganizationADHOCBAKCCDPProv<strong>in</strong>ceBanteay Meanchey 1 1 2Battambang 3 2 5Kampong Cham 2 2Kampong Thom 2 2 4Kampot 2 2K<strong>and</strong>al 1 1Koh Kong 1 2 3Kratie 2 2Phnom Penh 2 4 20 6 2 12 2 3 3 2 56Prey Veng 1 1Ratanakkiri 2 2Siem Reap 2 1 2 1 1 7Sihanoukville 2 2Total 2 4 31 6 4 23 6 6 4 3 89CLECAs of October 25, 2006, BAKC ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>s a role of 333 practic<strong>in</strong>g lawyers <strong>and</strong> 72 tra<strong>in</strong>eelawyers. 18CWCCLACLICADHO3.2.1 BAKC (Bar Association of the K<strong>in</strong>gdom of <strong>Cambodia</strong>)The <strong>Legal</strong> <strong>Aid</strong> Department of BAKC is designed to play an important role <strong>in</strong> provid<strong>in</strong>g legalassistance. As mentioned above, the Law <strong>and</strong> Regulations of the Bar provide for its Presidentto assign a colleague with<strong>in</strong> 15 days to provide legal aid if it is requested by a chief judge <strong>and</strong>chief clerk of a court. The Bar Council is to determ<strong>in</strong>e the number of lawyers required for theproper function<strong>in</strong>g of legal requests. 19With<strong>in</strong> the <strong>Legal</strong> <strong>Aid</strong> Department of BAKC, a Child Protection Unit operates to provide legaladvice <strong>and</strong> representation services to juveniles <strong>in</strong> conflict with the law. It has four lawyers <strong>in</strong>its employ <strong>in</strong> Phnom Penh.LSCWPJJOtherTotal17 Source: Annual reports, work plans <strong>and</strong> other documents of legal aid <strong>and</strong> human rights NGOs <strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong>stitutions,<strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong>terviews with key <strong>in</strong>formants as well as semi-structured <strong>in</strong>terviews of legal aid providers18 Source: BAKC19 Internal Regulation of the Bar Association of The K<strong>in</strong>gdom of <strong>Cambodia</strong>, Art.6
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