Le­gal aid

Tri­als and man­ag­ing other le­gal mat­ters of­ten re­quire us­ing a legally trained as­sis­tant.

Prin­ci­pally, the party in­volved pays for the le­gal aid they need. If they can­not af­ford to get the help they need, it can be paid for them with state funds, ei­ther par­tially or en­tirely. How­ever, le­gal aid is not usu­ally granted if the ap­pli­cant has le­gal aid in­sur­ance from which the ex­penses can be re­im­bursed.

In cer­tain sit­u­a­tions, the de­fen­dant in a crim­i­nal trial is guar­an­teed an ad­vo­cate at the state’s ex­pense, re­gard­less of their fi­nan­cial sit­u­a­tion.

The vic­tim of se­ri­ous vi­o­lent crime or sex­ual crime may be pro­vided with a trial coun­sel at the ex­pense of the state, re­gard­less of his or her fi­nan­cial sta­tus.

The state has pub­lic le­gal aid of­fices for grant­ing the le­gal aid. In them, the le­gal aid is pro­vided by pub­lic le­gal aid at­tor­neys. In trial mat­ters, le­gal aid is pro­vided by, in ad­di­tion to pub­lic le­gal aid at­tor­neys, lawyers and li­censed trial coun­sels. In other mat­ters, le­gal aid is pri­mar­ily pro­vided by pub­lic le­gal aid at­tor­neys.