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Legal Aid & Advice
In this topic you will be looking at what is involved in seeking and gaining legal advice. This will include identifiying those agencies that are available to offer free advice. Additonally there wil be some work on the schemes that accommodate those who are unable to afford legal assistance when taking a matter to court. Both criminally and civilly.
This topic should compliment these topics which have already been covered; Civil Cases, Criminal Courts, Legal Professions.
A breakdown of the topic:
a) Access to justice
b) History of Legal Aid and Advice schemes
c) Access to Justice Act 1999 (Click here to access the Act)
d) Providers of Legal Services
e) Problems of funding Civil cases
f) Conditional Fees
g) Advice Agencies
h) Criminal Defence Service
Assessment:
You will be assessed on this topic in line with OCR standards. The assessment will be a past paper question. This question will test your knowledge and application of that knowledge to AS Level exam standard. Click here to access the question.