II Forum of Legal Clinics of the Republic of Tatarstan was held in Kazan
The mutual exchange of practices of legal clinics and the creation of mechanisms of interaction between these organizations in the process of their activities were discussed by heads of public authorities, teachers and specialists of legal clinics at the II Forum of Legal Clinics of the Republic of Tatarstan.
In the format of discussions during the plenary session speakers and experts exchanged experience and opinions on the issues of creating a unified community of participants of the non-state system, improving the quality of legal assistance to the population, strengthening the status of legal clinics and involving students in this work.
In turn, she emphasized the importance of the work of legal clinics, raising legal awareness, education of high legal culture. Our citizens need legal assistance and professional lawyers. In March of this year amendments were made to the law on free legal aid, and we became a participant of the state system of free legal aid. The introduction of the relevant amendments to the legislation consolidated the established practice of providing free legal assistance to citizens within the existing competence of the Plenipotentiary and his Office.