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Legal Clinics in Poland
Basic information on the Polish Legal Clinics Foundation activity.
Legal clinics in Poland 25 legal clinics in 15 cities
Białystok – University of Białystok
Białystok – Białystok School of Public Administration
Gdańsk – Gdańsk University
Katowice – Silesian University
Kraków – Jagiellonian University
Kraków - Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian University
Lublin – Catholic University of Lublin
Lublin – Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
Łódź – University of Łodź
Olsztyn – Academic Association of the Law and European Education Propagators „Wspólna Europa”
Olsztyn - The University of Warmia and Mazury
Opole – Opole University
Poznań - Adam Mickiewicz University
Rzeszów – Rzeszów University
Słubice - Collegium Polonicum
Szczecin – University of Szczecin
Toruń – Nicolaus Copernicus University
Warszawa - Academia Iuris Foundation
Warszawa - Warsaw University
Warszawa - Lazarski School of Commerce and Law
Warszawa - Leon Koźmiński Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management
Warszawa - Management and Law Academy (WSZiP)
Wrocław - Wrocław University
Białystok
Warszawa
Lublin
RzeszówKraków
Katowice
Opole
Wrocław
Łódź
Poznań
Toruń
Gdańsk
Szczecin
Słubice
Olsztyn
Białystok
Warszawa
Lublin
RzeszówKraków
Katowice
Opole
Wrocław
Łódź
Poznań
Toruń
Gdańsk
Szczecin
Słubice
Olsztyn
Clinics accredited by the Legal Clinics Foundation
1. Student Legal Clinic in Białystok (University of Białystok)2. Student University Legal Clinic in Gdańsk3. Student Legal Clinic in Katowice4. University Legal Clinic in Kraków5. Student Legal Clinic of the Krakow Akademy of A. Frycz-Modrzewski in Krakow6. University Legal Clinic in Lublin (Catholic University)7. University Student Legal Clinic in Lublin (Curie-Skłodowska University)8. Student Legal Information Point „Klinika Prawa” in Łódź9. Student Social – Legal Advice Office „Bona Fides” in Opole10. Student Legal Clinic at the Warmia and Mazury University in Olsztyn11. Student University Legal Clinic in Poznań12. University Legal Clinic in Rzeszowie13. Scientific Group Student Legal Clinic in Słubice14. „Legal Education Center” – Student Legal Clinic in Szczecin15. University Legal Clinic in Toruń16. Academia Iuris Foundation in Warsaw17. Legal Clinic, Student Center of Legal Aid in Warsaw (Warsaw University)18. Student Legal Clinic in Warsaw (L. Koźmiński Academy)19. Student Legal Clinic in Warsaw (Lazarski School of Commerce and Law)20. Student Legal Advice Office in Warsaw (Management and Law Academy-WSZiP)21. University Legal Clinic in Wrocław
2009/2010 legal clinics activity in numbers
11 899 – cases were submitted to legal clinics between October 2009 and June 2010;
27 % (3214 cases) – were civil law matters; 1756 students and 216 supervisers worked in
clinics; 1 teacher supervised the work of 8 students; 8 cases were solved by one student per year.
Comparing to the previous year…
… number of cases increased by 6,9 %,… increase mostly in cases relating to violance against
women (154 %), social aid (40 %) and civil law(16 %),… number of students increased by 5,9 %,… supervising staff is the same in number as in the
2008/2009.
Comparing to the previous years …
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Number of cases accepted by the clinics
Total: 11 899
Number of students in the clinics
Total: 1 756
Number of supervisors in the clinics
Total: 216
Types of cases in the clinics
2007/2008 total: 11 075
2008/2009 total:11 899
Average time of handling the case
How did the client learn about the clinic?
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 mandatory 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 as well as the professor’s salaries paid by the universities. Our Foundation representatives and a group of legal aid NGO’s with a support of
the Ombudsman drafted a new law on access to legal aid. We convinced the Ministry of Justice to include our activity as a part of the national network of institutions that will provide so called pre-trial legal advice and basic legal information to poor people.
Cooperation of the Polish Ombudsman with the Legal Clinics network
1. The Ombudsman cooperates with the legal clinics since the very first legal clinics have been established in 1997 and 1998.
2. The cooperation is based on a general agreement signed by the Ombudsman and the Legal Clinics Foundation as well as bilateral agreements signed by 14 different law schools and their legal clinics.
3. The cooperation with the Ombudsman is based on the following activities: the Ombudsman agreed to take the most difficult cases from legal clinics in order
to help the citizens and protect their rights when only it is out of the legal clinics competences,
the Ombudsman agreed to admit for traineeship in his office only students from the legal clinics,
the Ombudsman agreed to issue and sponsor brochures on legal matters that are prepared by the legal clinics (till now over 50 brochures have been published),
the legal clinics submit reports on their activity and describe cases they deal with and based on those the Ombudsman prepares his yearly reports to the Parliament on human rights protection in Poland.
Legal Clinics Foundation’s achievements
The Foundation has the status of the public benefit organization.
Won a distinctive prize in the Best Pro Publico Bono Civil Initiative contest.
Several times ELSA Poland granted the Foundation title of „Legal Education
Supporter”.
For 8 years has organized annual Pro Bono Lawyer Contest.
Granted legal clinics with material and financial means of the total value of appr.
181 000 USD (financial) and over 258 000 USD (in-kind).
Published first in Poland and in our region textbook on CLE titled: „The Legal
Clinics. The Idea, Organization, Methodology”, which is available also in English.
By the time being we published 11 textbooks and manuals on clinical legal
education, another 3 are in preparation.
Organized 15 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 and 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.
Legal Clinics Foundation’s supporters
Institutional Sponsors
Sponsors
Looking forward to cooperation!
Polish Legal
Clinics Foundation
ul. Szpitalna 5 lok. 5
00-031 Warsaw, Polandphone.: +48 22 828 91 28 ex.143; fax: +48 22 828 91 29
www.fupp.org.pl, [email protected]
Bank PEKAO S.A. II o/Warszawa nr: 87 1240 1024 1111 0000 0269 4777