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Legal Services Agency - New Zealand

Department of Justice - Canada

Legal Aid Ontario

Attorney General's Department - Australia

Legal Aid Queensland

Victoria Legal Aid

Legal Aid New South Wales

The ILAG 2001 Convention

The Melbourne 2001 convention is designed to promote access to justice and other legal citizenship policies by promoting the cross-national, comparative lessons of how we can more efficiently and effectively fund and provide legal aid. In particular, the Melbourne convention will consider developments in management and service provision in the world of the 'contracting' welfare state, in both senses of that phrase. Thus, the Melbourne 2001 convention will build upon the successes of the earlier ILAG meetings and contribute to better informed legal aid management, and more effective and efficient service delivery through consideration of topics such as:

  • achieving parity in access to legal aid for the poor, and not quite so poor o cross-national experiences in pro bono services;
  • developments in models of legal aid delivery;
  • expenditure and service delivery priorities;
  • legal access through IT and other new technologies of service delivery;
  • linking current developments in legal aid management with other developments in public sector reform;
  • managing civil justice;
  • meeting the special needs of indigenous peoples;
  • needs assessment in family, criminal and civil law matters;
  • the implications of de-regulation in the market for legal services;
  • the role of community-based legal service delivery;
  • the role of the legal profession in legal aid delivery.

The Melbourne 2001 convention will follow the proven format of The Hague, Edinburgh and Vancouver convention, ie, opening and national reports (Wednesday evening), two day closed participant conference (Thursday & Friday) and an open meeting (Saturday). In Melbourne ILAG intends to restrict closed conference participants to a maximum of 40. Once again, attendees will include legal aid CEOs and policy makers from The Netherlands, Scotland, England, Canada, the United States, Sweden, Norway, the Republic of Ireland and New Zealand. Pre-eminent legal aid researchers from these countries will also participate.

Please note that participation in the ILAG 2001 closed conference is by invitation only. All participants have been invited at this point. If you have not been invited to the closed conference but would like to participate in the open meeting on Saturday, 16 June 2001, then please send us a registration form for that event (further details available by clicking here).

 Assisted by

Law Institute Victoria

University of Strathclyde

University of Canberra

Centre for Research in Public Sector Management
© ILAG Melbourne 2001 - Last updated: June 3, 2001 11:24 AM