Legal aid in Europe

This is a comparative research about legal aid in nine countries: France, Germany, Belgium, England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Poland, Finland and the Netherlands. This report addresses two questions:How are state-financed legal aid systems organised in these countries?Which minimum requirements for state-financed legal aid can be reduced from the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) and from case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)?