What is pro bono and how much do lawyers do?

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What is pro bono and how much do lawyers do?

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

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Access to justice is firmly on the policy agenda and pro bono work is an important part of that agenda. While it can only ever make a limited contribution to closing the justice gap, it can provide access to legal services for some who would otherwise miss out. For pro bono to make this contribution, however, it needs to be very clear that only some types of free legal work achieve this goal and can, therefore, properly be called “pro bono”. Ensuring that the profession has this shared unders...

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Research paper

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Scholarly text / Journal article

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Article

Date created

2020-12

Creator

Toy-Cronin, Bridgette / Stewart, Kayla

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/12288

Related subjects

Pro bono / Criminal law / Criminal justice / Legal profession / Lawyers / Legal assistance

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This version in OUR Archive is the author's manuscript accepted for publication after peer-review. The published version is: Stewart, K., & Toy-Cronin, B. (2020). What is pro bono and how much do lawyers do? New Zealand Law Journal<, 11, 414-420.

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