PILA - Public interest lawyers association
Pro Bono Centrum Overview 2011
10.11. 2011
10.11.2011 Pro Bono Centrum Overview 2011
Since June 2008 to October 2011, the Pro Bono Centre received 140 requests for pro bono legal help from individual clients represented by NGOs and NGOs themselves. In 79 cases legal help was provided to individual clients of NGOs. The legal help concerned cases of domestic violence, lost of housing, executions, restrictions of qualification to legal acts, and family law, etc. In 61 cases the legal help was provided to NGOs concerning their activities. Pro Bono Centre operates within progressing network of law firms, who consider pro bono work as one of their professional activities. There are 45 law firms involved in the network.
Pro bono aliance
Pro Bono Aliance’s primary goal is to make the legal instruments in the Czech Republic more effective in protecting human rights, public interest and important common values.
Pro Bono Aliance promotes better access to legal aid and socially responsible lawyering. To achieve its goals, Pro Bono Aliance organizes educational events, supports exchange of experience and facilitates cooperation between lawyers from NGOs and other legal professions, participates in legislative change, supports pro bono activities of lawyers and spreads information about the protection of human rights.