Published: 2025-09-30

A normative model for free legal aid and citizens’ advice centres: Theory and practice

Dawid Daniluk
Zeszyty Prawnicze
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2025.25.3.04

Abstract

This article considers the normative model of centres offering legal aid, citizens’ advice and legal education free of charge, as defned in the Polish Act of August 5, 2015 (Ustawa z dnia 5 sierpnia 2015 r. o nieodpłatnej pomocy prawnej, nieodpłatnym poradnictwie obywatelskim oraz edukacji prawnej). The first part of the article describes the Act’s theoretical principles. Te research presented in the next section characterizes the difficulties encountered by centres of this kind in 2022–2024. Consequently, I attempt to answer the fundamental question of whether the normative model for their practical operation is being implemented effectively.

Keywords:

free legal aid, free civic counseling, non-governmental organization, district, professional association

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Daniluk, D. (2025). A normative model for free legal aid and citizens’ advice centres: Theory and practice. Zeszyty Prawnicze, 25(3), 113–134. https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2025.25.3.04

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