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Ghanian Legal Aid To Be Improved
The Ghanaian government has promised to seek a review of the Legal Aid Scheme Act that was passed in the country in 1997. The act, highly praised at the time, provides citizens with free legal assistance in cases where they are unable to find the financial means to secure proper legal protection and advice themselevs.The move comes after several high profile lawyers had voiced concerns over the lack of legal aid in the Upper East and Upper West regions of the African nation. No lawyer that currently serves with the LAB (Legal Aid Board) is stationed or has accepted a job in those regions effectively leaving the poorer citizens without any legal protection whatsoever.
Furthermore, the government is planning on increasing the profile of the legal aid scheme. Some 7000 cases were passed through the LAB in 2010 however many people involved with the system admit that there are thousands more that could use the services of the Legal Aid Board but do not know of its existence. Mr Alhassan Yahaya Seini, director of the LAB, has urged both qualified lawyers and law students to provide free legal counsel for those who cannot afford it in an effort to amplify awareness over human rights and simple legal protection.
The government is planning to bring the attention of this noteworthy scheme to prisons, juvenile detention centres and into the more rural parts of Ghana. Furthermore, Mr W.K. Beecham of the Ghanaian Bar Association promised to do more to offer proper legal aid to those who are in most need of it.
18.09.2011. 01:24