Legal aid in Iceland
The aim of the chapter is to give a brief overview of the development of legal aid in civil cases in Iceland. The current law, which came into force in 1992, allows for legal aid to be granted not only on the basis of low economic status, but also if the outcome of the case is deemed to have great p...
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ftulundlup:oai:lup.lub.lu.se:880ba0bc-396f-4214-89e6-d6359a971705 2024-02-11T10:04:59+01:00 Legal aid in Iceland Antonsdóttir, Hildur Fjóla 2017-01-01 https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/880ba0bc-396f-4214-89e6-d6359a971705 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46684-2_6 eng eng Springer International Publishing https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/880ba0bc-396f-4214-89e6-d6359a971705 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46684-2_6 ISBN: 9783319466835 ISBN: 9783319466842 scopus:85042486099 Law and Society contributiontobookanthology/chapter info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart text 2017 ftulundlup https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46684-2_6 2024-01-17T23:29:08Z The aim of the chapter is to give a brief overview of the development of legal aid in civil cases in Iceland. The current law, which came into force in 1992, allows for legal aid to be granted not only on the basis of low economic status, but also if the outcome of the case is deemed to have great public or individual significance. The latter criterion, however, remains contested, seemingly as a matter of right-wing vs. left-wing politics. The discussion on legal aid has, however, mostly been framed in narrow legalistic terms in response to suggestions to cut state costs. It is therefore difficult to discern whether and to what extent legal aid in Iceland is conceptualised as a charity, right, or individual responsibility. Book Part Iceland Lund University Publications (LUP) Charity ENVELOPE(-60.333,-60.333,-62.733,-62.733) 125 146 Cham |
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The aim of the chapter is to give a brief overview of the development of legal aid in civil cases in Iceland. The current law, which came into force in 1992, allows for legal aid to be granted not only on the basis of low economic status, but also if the outcome of the case is deemed to have great public or individual significance. The latter criterion, however, remains contested, seemingly as a matter of right-wing vs. left-wing politics. The discussion on legal aid has, however, mostly been framed in narrow legalistic terms in response to suggestions to cut state costs. It is therefore difficult to discern whether and to what extent legal aid in Iceland is conceptualised as a charity, right, or individual responsibility. |
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