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Article: Better funding rules sought for legal aid
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- August 30, 2004
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The Ministry of Justice has called for more effort to ensure legal
aid reaches the people that need it most.
Minister of Justice Zhang Fusen said better definitions are needed
to determine who is eligible for legal aid.
Developing specific criteria would help implement the Regulation
on Legal Aid, Zhang said during a seminar in Beijing yesterday to
mark the first anniversary of the enactment of the regulation.
Legal aid was first initiated by the ministry in 1994. It has
provided counselling to more than 600,000 people and handled 810,000
cases to more than 130,000 people in a decade.
In 2003, nearly 170,000 cases received legal aid, a jump of 23 per
cent from 2002.
More than 190,000 people ...