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Legal Clinics in Poland
Summary of the academic year 2005/2006
activity
Legal clinics in Poland
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
* Legal clinic opened in 2005
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. University Legal Clinic in Lublin (Catholic University)6. University Student Legal Clinic in Lublin (Curie-Skłodowska University)7. Student Legal Information Point „Klinika Prawa” in Łódź8. Student University Legal Clinic in Poznań9. Scientific Group Student Legal Clinic in Słubice10. „Legal Education Center” – Student Legal Clinic in Szczecin11. University Legal Clinic in Toruń12. Academia Iuris Foundation in Warsaw13. Legal Clinic, Student Center of Legal Aid in Warsaw (Warsaw University)14. Student Legal Clinic in Warsaw (L. Koźmiński Academy)15. Student Legal Clinic in Warsaw (Lazarski School of Commerce and Law)16. Student Legal Advice Office in Warsaw (Management and Law Academy-WSZiP)17. University Legal Clinic in Wrocław
Academic year in numbers
9833 cases were submitted to legal clinics between October 2005 and June 2006;
2397 (24%) were civil law cases; 1279 students and 179 teachers worked in the clinics; 1 teacher supervised the work of 7 students; 8 cases were solved by one student.
Comparing to the last academic year
… number of cases raised by 32,5 %,
… number of students raised by 22 %,
… number of faculty supervisors raised by 20 %,
… quality of the legal advice was kept – in 2003/2004 there was one supervisor for 9 students, in 2004/2005 and 2005/2006 there were 7 students under one teacher’s supervision,
… increase of cases dealing with NGOs (two times more than last year) number of the disabled people cases and inheritance law cases raised by 50%,
… 50% of cases are dealt with in the normal course which is maximum 14 days.
Number of cases accepted by the clinics
Total: 9833(7421 in academic year 2004/2005)
* Clinic opened in 2005
2284
980821 762 718
622 554452 393
258 253 245 241 241 175 155 131 129 120 119 100 54 26
Number of students in the clinics
Total: 1279(1049 in academic year 2004/2005)
* Clinic opened in 2005
225
141
82 80 7461 60 57 57
48 48 48 45 41 38 38 3626 23 21 14 9 7
Number of clinical teachers
Total: 179(147 in academic year 2004/2005)
* Clinic opened in 2005
20 20
17
1211
9 98 8
76 6
5 5 5 5 5 5 54
32 2
Types of cases
31
361
16389596190332
563633878
1114
1409
2397
1680 Total: 7421
Time of handling the case
Short explanation
(1-2 meetings, up to 2 weeks)
50%
1 year and more
1%
Between 2 months
and 1 year10%
Several meetings (2 weeks
- 2 months)39%
Sources of information about legal clinic
Other24%
Friends26%
Family12%
Information brochures
7%Internet
7%
Radio5%
TV4%
News-papers
16%
Women Men
Other24%
Friends27%Family
11%
Information brochures
7%Internet
7%
Radio5%
TV4%
News-papers
16%
Have the clients used professional legal advice before?
Women Men
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 state law school and at almost all private law schools.
Some of the legal clinics (Krakow, Warsaw, Bialystok, Lodz) gained a status of a chair or laboratory this year
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.
This year our Foundation 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 activity
The Foundation has the status of the public benefit organization;
Won a distinctive prize in the Best Pro Publico Bono Civil Initiative
contest;
Organizes anual Pro Bono Lawyer Contest;
Helps to build similar organizations in Ukraine, Russia, China and
provides trainings to other legal clinics in Central and Eastern Europe; Published first in Poland and in region textbook „The Legal Clinics. The
Idea, Organization, Methodology”, available also in English; next
textbooks are under preparation;
Each year organizes two National Legal Clinics Conferences as well as
workshops, train the trainers courses on psychological skills and
clinical teaching methodology;
Represents legal clinics toward state institutions and takes part in
drafting legislation on access to justice;
Granted legal clinics with material and financial means of the total
value of appr. 200 000 USD.
Thank you for your attention!
Polish Legal ClinicsFoundation
www.fupp.org.pl
Address:
Szpitalna 5 app. 5, 00-031 Warsaw, Poland
ph.: (+48 22) 828 91 28 ext.143, fax: (+48 22) 828 91 29
Banc account:
Bank PEKAO S.A. II o/Warszawa no.: 87 1240 1024 1111 0000 0269 4777