28.01.2007
Conference on Protection and Promotion of Human Rights through
Provision of Legal Services
Best Practices from Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe
Kyiv
27th-30th March, 2007
Draft Program
DAY ONE
Breakfast and Registration
Welcome and Opening Addresses
Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine (invited)
Mrs Alla Tytynnok, President, Kherson Regional Charity and Health
Foundation
Ms Dace Kavasa, Program Manager, Ukraine, Danish Institute for Human
Rights
Session One (Plenary): Legal Services Provision from the Perspective
of Public Authorities
Issues for consideration:
- State-provided / funded legal services and professional independence
- Reform of legal aid systems
- Indicators and quality standards for service delivery
Moderator: Mr Avrom Sherr, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies,
London, United Kingdom
Panelists:
1. Captain F.B. Nanguzgambo, Former Executive Director, Legal Aid
Board of Zambia (invited)
2. Ms Ta Thi Minh Ly, Director, National Legal Aid Agency, Vietnam
3. Representative from Centre of Legal Reform and Legislative Review,
Ministry of Justice of Ukraine
Discussion
LUNCH
Session Two (Plenary): Provision of services by private and
community-based organizations
Issues for consideration:
* Challenges in the establishment and operation of legal aid
networks
* Strategies for developing a program of services - prioritizing
different types of assistance.
* Monitoring and reporting activities
* Indicators and quality standards for service delivery
Moderator: Mr Vasili Kukharchyk, Program Coordinator, Public Advocacy
/ Legal Aid, Amercian Bar Association / Central European and East
Asian Law Initiative, Kyiv, Ukraine
Panelists:
1. Mr Sam Sok Oeun, Legal Defender's Project, Cambodia
2. Mrs Alla Tytynnok, President, Kherson Regional Charity and Health
Foundation
3. Mr Kim McQuay, Country Representative, The Asia Foundation,
Bangladesh
Discussion
Reception:
Keynote Speaker: Mr Sergiy Holovatiy, Former Minister of Justice of
Ukraine, Vice Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of
Europe (proposed)
DAY TWO
Session Three: (Plenary): Rights-based approaches in delivery of legal
aid services
Issues: - Developmental Legal Aid
- Legal Empowerment strategies
- Strategies for pursuing human rights advocacy through a legal
services program
- Preventative legal aid: strategies for promoting legal and
structural change at local and national level.
Moderator: Mr Fergus Kerrigan, Senior Advisor, Danish Institute for
Human Rights
Panelists:
1. Ms Geeta Sangroula, Director, CellRD, Nepal
2. Representative from Free Legal Aid Group (FLAG), Philippines
3. Ms Carla Ferstmann, The Redress Trust, London, UK
4. Mr Paul Mulenga, Legal Resource Foundation, Zambia
Discussion
Working Group One: Civil Law
Issues - Access to health, education and other social services, legal
services for the homeless, realization of social and economic rights,
labour rights, land disputes, succession
Discussant: Mr Rudolph Jansen, National Director, Laywyers for Human
Rights, South Africa
Working Group Two: Criminal Law
Issues - rights issues in the criminal justice process
Fair trial principles
Liberty and Security of the Person
Ameliorating the effects of pre-trial detention
Discussant: Mr Yubaraj Sangroula, Faculty of Law, University of
Kathmandu, Nepal
LUNCH
Reporting Back to Plenum
Moderator: Mr Fergus Kerrigan
Discussion
BREAK
Session Four: Redefining Access to Justice - Informal justice
mechanisms and alternate dispute resolution forums
Issues - Role of traditional justice systems - examples of the
incorporation of rights-based approaches into existing structures
- Application of alternate dispute resolution techniques as a means to
reduce the number of cases entering the formal system.
Moderator: Mr Paul Dalton, Senior Project Manager, Danish Institute
for Human Rights
Panelists:
1. Mr Fazlul Huq, Secretary, Madaripur Legal Aid Association,
Bangladesh
2. Ms Elinor Wanyama Chemonges, Foundation for Human Rights
Initiative, Uganda
3. Participant from Traditional Justice Forums - Afghanistan
(proposed)
Discussion
DINNER
Evening Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: Ms Dace Kavasa, Senior Project Manager, DIHR
Establishment of an IT-based legal aid knowledge network:
What sort of platform will be most appropriate to the needs of the
network?
Who should be responsible for hosting?
Who should have access to the network, and how should applications for
admission, decissions regarding posting of materials and messages on
the network be administered?
DAY THREE
Session Five: The Role of the Legal Profession
Issues:
* Respective roles of Lawyers, paralegals and non-lawyers
* What are the trends at national level? How can best use be made of
the relatively small number of qualified lawyers who are able or
willing to assist in legal aid programs? What does the future hold
for the particiaption of paralegals and non-lawyers particiaption
in legal services programs?
Moderator: Mr Tom Geraghty, Professor of Law, Northwestern University,
Chicago, USA
Panelists:
1. Representative from Diyarbakir Bar Association, Turkey (invited)
2. Mr Andrew Kasirye, Legal Aid Project of the Law Society of Uganda
3. Mr Clifford Msiska, Paralegal Adivsory Service, Malawi
4. Mr Anton Burkov, Legal NGO `Suchesnik', Ekaterinburg, Russia
(invited)
Discussion
LUNCH
Closing Session: Holistic approaches to delivery of legal aid services
- Holistic approaches seen both `internally' (the organization of the
organization); `externally' (within a network of legal aid service
providers), and with respect to the service-providers approach to the
client.
- Building bridges between public and community-based service
providers
Moderator: Mr Adam Stapleton, Penal Reform International, Malawi
Panelists:
1. Mr David McQuoid-Mason, University of Natal, South Africa
2. Mr Roman Romanov, Rule of Law Program Manager, International
Renaissance Foundation, Ukraine
3. Professor Yubaraj Sangroula, School of Law, University of
Kathmandu, Nepal
Discussion
FAREWELL DINNER
Occasional Speaker: `Ukranian history, culture and likely future
trajectories'
DAY 4 (Optional Program for those able to stay on in Kyiv an extra
day)
Study tour:
Visit to legal service agencies and other relevant Governmental and
independent institutions
Alternative:
Individual meetings with Kyiv-based institutions (participants make
private arrangements).
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