Legal Clinics in Poland

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Legal Clinics in Poland

• Summary of the legal clinics activity in the
  academic year 2011/2012

Basic information on the Polish Legal Clinics
Foundation activity.
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Legal Clinics in Poland 2003-2012
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Clinics accredited by the Legal Clinics
Foundation

1. Student Legal Clinic in Bialystok (University of
   Bialystok)
2. Student University Legal Clinic in Gdansk
3. Legal Advice Clinic at the Higher School of
   Diplomacy and Law in Gdynia
4. Student Legal Clinic in Katowice
5. University Legal Clinic in Kraków
6. Student Legal Clinic of the Krakow Akademy of A.
   Frycz-Modrzewski in Krakow
7. University Legal Clinic in Lublin (Catholic
   University)
8. University Student Legal Clinic in Lublin
   (Curie-Sklodowska University)
9. Student Legal Information Point Klinika Prawa
   in Lódz
10. Student Social Legal Advice Office Bona
    Fides in Opole
11. Student Legal Clinic at the Warmia and Mazury
    University in Olsztyn
12. Student University Legal Clinic in Poznan
13. University Legal Clinic in Rzeszowie
14. Scientific Group Student Legal Clinic in Slubice
15. Legal Education Center Student Legal Clinic
    in Szczecin
16. University Legal Clinic in Torun
17. Academia Iuris Foundation in Warsaw
18. Legal Clinic, Student Center of Legal Aid in
    Warsaw (Warsaw University)
19. Student Legal Clinic in Warsaw (L. Kozminski
    Academy)

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2011/2012 legal clinics activity in numbers

• 13 379 cases submitted to legal clinics between
  October 2011 to June 2012
• 30 (4057 cases) dealt with civil law problems
• 1851 students and 235 supervisors worked at the
  clinics
• 8 supervisor student ratio
• 7 cases student ratio

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Comparing to previous years
students
supervisors
Number of students and supervisors 2003-2012
Number of cases 2003-2012
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Types of cases accepted
Total in 2010/2011 12 786 Total in 2011/2012 13
379
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Average time of handling the case
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How did the client learned about the clinic
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Present status of the legal clinics in Poland

• There are very few NGO based legal clinics in
  Poland.
• Almost all of the legal clinics in Poland are
  recognized by the Universities as a part of the
  legal curriculum at our law schools (as one of
  the optional classes that are offered to the
  students).
• Legal Clinics are present at every law school in
  Poland.
• Some of the legal clinics (Krakow, Warsaw,
  Bialystok, Lodz) gained a status of a chair or
  laboratory, which means that they became part of
  the university budget.
• All of the legal clinics that are based at the
  Universities get all the office costs covered,
  majority of the professors salaries are paid by
  the universities.

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Legal Clinics Foundations achievements

• The Foundation has the status of the public
  benefit organization.
• Won a distinctive prize of the Best Pro Publico
  Bono Civil Initiative contest.
• ELSA Poland granted the Foundation title of
  Legal Education Supporterin 2006 and 2007.
• For 10 years has organized annual Pro Bono Lawyer
  Contest.
• Granted legal clinics with material and financial
  means of the total value of appr. 200 000 USD
  (financial) and over 400 000 USD (in-kind).
• Published first in Poland and in region textbook
  The Legal Clinics. The Idea, Organization,
  Methodology (available also in English, and soon
  in Russian and Chinese). By the time being we
  published 13 textbooks and manuals on clinical
  legal education, another one is in preparation.
• Organized 19 National Legal Clinics Conferences
  as well as several workshops.
• Actively participated in the creation of a strong
  clinical movement in Central and Eastern Europe
  and in the transforming countries including
  Ukraine, Czech Republic, Moldova, Uzbekistan,
  China, Russia, Serbia, Belarus, Georgia.
• In 2008 Centrum Pro Bono has been opened as a
  program which aims to connect pro bono legal aid
  offered by law firms with legal needs of the
  NGOs.

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Legal Clinics Foundations Supporters
Institutional Sponsors
Sponsors
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Thank you for your attention!

• Polish Legal Clinics Foundation

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48 22 828 91 28 Fax [phone] E-mail
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