Abu Dhabi Judicial Department announced that the total number of beneficiaries of legal aid has reached 23,656 people, from the beginning of this year until mid-December.
The department provides assistance through four service centers, which include the main center in Abu Dhabi, Al Yahar Court, Al Ain Court, and Al Dhafra Court.
The head of the legal aid department in the department, Mona Ismail Al-Raisi, said that the number of beneficiaries of legal aid this year witnessed an increase of more than 14%, compared to last year, which recorded the benefit of 20 thousand and 311 people from its aid.
The principal stated that the department provides free legal advice and guidance services to its auditors for free, regardless of their legal status, whether they are plaintiffs, defendants, complainants, or complainants about them, stressing that “the service aims to support everyone’s right to access to justice.”
And she continued that providing legal aid to the indigent from the litigants, includes appointing attorneys for the incapable litigants, and incurring the costs of advertisement by publication, which are required by some provisions, pointing out that the Policy and Procedures Manual of the Legal Aid Department, sets the standards for obtaining legal aid, where these services are provided without Discrimination in sex, race, or religion.
The principal said that the Legal Aid Department is concerned with providing legal guidance and guidance to dealers on the legal procedures that the law requires them to perform, and the concerned party is required to know them, and informing the clients of legal rights and duties, including, for example, procedures for filing civil, labor, and personal status cases, in addition to Providing legal services and paying the expenses of advertisement in publishing, and depositing the secretariat of expertise for those who are not well off, according to the income criterion and the criteria for seriousness of requests.
The main explained that the department is concerned with providing four legal services to the public, the first: “legal guidance and guidance”, a service that requires personal attendance, as it is provided to the department’s auditors through the presence of the service applicant in the legal aid department in the cases brought by them or against them in all its stages, and that does not Breach of duty of the distinction between opponents.
The second service is «legal guidance and guidance via phone call», as it is provided to the department’s auditors through the phone call to the service applicant on the contact numbers of the Legal Aid Department, in a manner that does not violate the duty to deviate between the litigants, and the third service is “requesting the appointment of an attorney”, which is to assign a lawyer to The case is not affordable in all stages of the case before the courts of the department, according to the approved standards, while the last service includes “expenses of the trust of experience”, through which the expenses of the trust of the expertise are paid to the non-case, in implementation of the ruling of the competent court, during the consideration of cases brought by them or against them, On a After the final judgment recovered in the case of an opponent is not the beneficiary of the convicted aid to incur expenses.
Legal Aid Office
- Objectives:
Providing legal aid and guidance to all department auditors, and providing free legal aid to those who are not well off, before and during the cases brought by them or them, in coordination with the concerned authorities.
Beneficiaries:
Judicial Department auditors benefit from the available legal guidance and guidance services, through legal researchers, either through direct attendance or by phone.
The department provides legal services and payment of experience deposits, and it bears advertising costs for the less well-off, according to the seriousness of the request and the income criterion.
- work time:
The department provides its services during official working hours, from 7:30 in the morning until 2:00 in the afternoon, throughout official working days.