{"id":990,"date":"2013-02-19T21:56:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T21:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crpsisak.hr\/?p=990"},"modified":"2013-02-19T21:56:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T21:56:36","slug":"sastanak-o-primarnoj-pravnoj-pomoci-u-slavonskom-brodu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crpsisak.hr\/en\/2013\/02\/sastanak-o-primarnoj-pravnoj-pomoci-u-slavonskom-brodu\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting on primary legal aid in Slavonski Brod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Civil Rights Project Sisak visited the NGO \u201cInformation Legal Centre\u201d in Slavonski Brod on 24th January 2013 as an activity within the project \u201cStrengthening the role of NGOs in providing of primary legal aid\u201d funded by the British Embassy in Zagreb.<br \/>\nThe meeting was organised in order to discuss the primary legal aid, position of NGOs in providing of primary legal aid and problems encountered in practice. The meeting was held in the IPC premises where they also provide free legal assistance. IPC staff, Natasa Kova\u010devi\u0107, head of the office and Marina Bari\u0107-Ga\u010di\u0107, legal advisor attended the meeting, as well as Dunja \u010cur\u010dija, legal advisor and Sa\u0161a Zeljug, legal assistant ; both from CRP Sisak.<br \/>\nDunja \u010cur\u010dija presented CRP\u2019s procedure in providing free legal aid to beneficiaries through the state\u2019s system. She says that CRP\u2019s work is based on decisions on free legal aid and points out the fact that CRP fulfils forms (requests for free legal aid) on behalf of clients and sends them to the relevant State\u2019s Administration Office. CRP also takes over free legal aid decisions on behalf of clients through power of attorneys, submits submissions to relevant bodies when necessary and pays administrative fees instead of clients. All these components CRP performs in order to implement free legal aid in a very quality manner although NGOs are not financed for everything they do within the free legal aid system.<br \/>\nNatasa Kova\u010devi\u0107 said that they did not have the capacity or the financial resources to provide free legal assistance through the Law on Free Legal Aid. As she pointed out, the biggest problem was related to financing of NGOs in the free legal aid system. NGOs within the state\u2019s system of free legal should be offered the project financing. The current practice, where NGO receive 2000 \u2013 3000 HRK from the Ministry during one year is not enough to even cover legal advisor\u2019s salary for one month. She has also pointed out that the system of filing the requests for free legal aid is not functional and that IPC Slavonski Brod does not have either capacity or financial resources for providing of free legal aid in such way. Nata\u0161a has also mentioned the importance of resolving the financing of NGOs by the state \u2013 from the state\u2019s budget, because NGOs might be faced with the fact that the international donators will not finance providing of free legal aid in future. It has been pointed out also that IPC\u2019s Slavonski Brod main activity is providing free legal and they intend to provide it within the system in the future, but it is not possible for them now.<br \/>\nFinally, the participants agreed that the system itself was over-bureaucratic and it was neither in favour of any users nor beneficiaries, nor providers and that the amendments to the Law were necessary.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Civil Rights Project Sisak visited the NGO \u201cInformation Legal Centre\u201d in Slavonski Brod on 24th January 2013 as an activity within the project \u201cStrengthening the role of NGOs in providing of primary legal aid\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[147,212,214,213,66,209,211],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dunja-curcija","tag-ipc","tag-marina-baric-gacic","tag-natasa-kovacevic","tag-pravna-pomoc","tag-sasa-zeljug","tag-slavonski-brod"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crpsisak.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crpsisak.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crpsisak.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crpsisak.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crpsisak.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crpsisak.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/www.crpsisak.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crpsisak.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crpsisak.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crpsisak.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}