Long Term Aims and Objectives
- to operate an independent, efficient and cost-effective legal aid service;
- to ensure that no one with reasonable grounds for taking or defending proceedings is prevented from doing so because of lack of means;
- to ensure that in the interests of justice, no one charged with a criminal offence or with reasonable grounds of appeal is deprived of legal representation because of lack of means; and
- to improve the quality and accessibility of legal aid services to the public while achieving maximum cost-effectiveness.
In achieving the above objectives, the Department will, where appropriate, conduct reviews on different aspects of legal aid services periodically taking into account the views and suggestions of the Legal Aid Services Council ("LASC"), users of the services and other stakeholders.
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