Fortunata Frederick Kitokesya

Effective criminal legal aid

Comparison of England and Wales, Tanzania and South Africa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Effective criminal legal aid is crucial for access to justice of poor people and for the interest of justice. Poor people who are in conflict with criminal law are left with no help in the criminal justice system around the world. Poor or inexistence of criminal legal aid results into unnecessary imprisonment or unfair sentencing and prolonged pre trial detention. This book looks at effectiveness of criminal legal aid systems of the three Countries which are Tanzania, England and South Africa. It starts by looking at international human rights laws, regional human rights instruments and it goes down into comparing the three countries by looking at their established laws on criminal legal aid and best practices. At the end it offers ideas and suggestions that add value to the reform of criminal legal aid to make it more effective, real, exist where it does not exist, reliable and accessible.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 167g
• ISBN-13: 9783659405730
• ISBN-10: 3659405736
• Artikelnr.: 38549072

Autorenporträt

Fortunata Freedrick Kitokesya is a Secretary of the Legal Aid Clinic of the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She has a special interest in Legal Aid especially Criminal Legal Aid, access to justice of the Poor, Legal empowerment of the Poor and International Human rights.