Purpose, definitions and scope of application -- Guiding principles -- Legal aid beneficiaries and legal aid providers -- The Legal Aid Authority -- Procedures -- Financial provisions -- Rules and regulations -- Final provisions.

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Annexes (p. 519-546) : 1. Overview of tools -- 2. Protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime -- 3.Feedback form.
"The present Model Law on Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems with Commentaries was developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The draft Model Law was prepared for UNODC by Mohamed Y. Matar, Clinical Professor of Law at Qatar University College of Law and Executive Director of the Protection Project, a not-for-proft human rights research and training institute located in Washington, D.C., and Marina Elefante, Director of Rule of Law Programs at the Protection Project, as consultants"--Acknowledgements .

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