1. Enhancing the Quality of Legal Aid: General Standards for Different Countries
22-23 November 2017 in Vilnius, Lithuania
Session III: Best Practices / Quality Indicators
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Four brief (!) introductory questions
Prof. Dr. Christoph Burchard, LL.M. (NYU)

2. Directive (EU) 2016/1919
Article 7 | Quality of legal aid services and training
1. Member States shall take necessary measures, including with regard to funding, to ensure that:
(a) there is an effective legal aid system that is of an adequate quality; and
legal aid services are of a quality adequate to safeguard the fairness of the proceedings, with due respect for the independence of the legal profession. …
Article 8 | Remedies
Member States shall ensure that suspects, accused persons and requested persons have an effective remedy under national law in the event of a breach of their rights under this Directive.

3. Questions
Indicators/counter-indicators/clusters of indicators?
The role of „contexts“?
Criminal justice system as a whole
„Culture“ …
3. Taking into account what also „really“ (?) matters?
Problems: (reasons for) „bad“ lawyers; access to justice; …
Consequences: inadmissibility of evidence; costs in general; …
Power: Who decides (e.g. on the quality of lawyers)?