The prepared statistical information says that 6 531 cases were submitted to legal clinics between 2016 and 2017. 1826 students and 321 teachers worked in the clinics. Detailed information in the presentation.
Summary of the academic year 2016/2017 activity in Polish legal clinics >>>
The prepared statistical information says that 10 693 cases were submitted to legal clinics between October 2014 and June 2015, 3283 (32%) were civil law cases, 1988 students and 351 teachers worked in the clinics. This means that one teacher supervised the work of 6 students and 5 cases were solved by one student.
Summary of the academic year 2014/2015 activity in Polish legal clinics >>>
The prepared statistical information says that 11 127 cases were submitted to legal clinics between October 2012 and June 2013, 3241 (29%) were civil law cases, 1965 students and 253 teachers worked in the clinics. This means that one teacher supervised the work of 8 students and 6 cases were solved by one student.
Summary of the academic year 2012/2013 activity in Polish legal clinics >>>
14 years ago in Szczecin, in May 1998, ELSA, the European Law Students’ Association organised a conference ‘Reform of legal education. The development of academic legal clinics’. The precedence subject and the joining of the undertaking with the Meeting of Polish Deans of Law Faculties and the Polish Meeting of The Polish Bar Association, allowed for a serious discussion on the issue of clinical education in Poland. The conference gave grounds for a breakthrough in the system of teaching law at Polish universities, introducing, alongside the traditional lecture formula, practical teaching elements and also paved way for the implementation of the university’s vision, promptly reacting to the needs of local communities.
“Legal education in Europe faces many difficult challenges, including making the law school curriculum more practical, with an emphasis on skills, values and social justice. Clinical legal education is a perfect way to answer many of these challenges and it is remarkable to see the positive contributions of legal clinics in many European countries. I am convinced that a European Network for Clinical Legal Education will increase awareness about the added value of clinical legal education and will help to create a real clinical movement in Europe,” says Filip Czernicki, the president of Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE) and of the Polish Legal Clinics Foundation (FUPP), and founding member of the European Network for Clinical Legal Education (ENCLE).
Read more: Creation of the European Network for Clinical Legal Education (ENCLE)
The prepared statistical information says that 13 379 cases were submitted to legal clinics between October 2011 and June 2012, 4057 (30%) were civil law cases, 1851 students and 235 teachers worked in the clinics. This means that 1 teacher supervised the work of 8 students and 7 cases were solved by one student.
Summary of the academic year 2011/2012 activity in Polish legal clinics >>>
The prepared statistical information says that 12 786 cases were submitted to legal clinics between October 2010 and June 2011, 3934 (30%) were civil law cases, 1994 students and 224 teachers worked in the clinics. This means that 1 teacher supervised the work of 9 students and 7 cases were solved by one student.
Summary of the academic year 2010/2011 activity in Polish legal clinics >>>
Legal Clinic established at the Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok (Poland) together with Legal Clinics Foundation, organized VIIIth Annual Colloquium on Clinical Legal Education in Poland. The major theme of the Colloquium, due to the ten years of existence of the Polish clinical movement, was "the next step forward in the development of Clinical Legal Education in Poland - Judicial Practices Center and Mediation Clinic". Participants were not only Polish clinical professors but also clinical students and friends from the Legal Clinic established at the University of Olomouc in Czech Republic. There were also guests from Armenia, Georgia, Kirgizstan, Moldova, Ukraine, except Polish participants, due to the organization of the study visit which was prepared by the Legal Clinics Foundation in the cooperation with Public Interest Law Institute.
Read more: VIIIth Annual Colloquium on Clinical Legal Education in Poland
On June 22 the Polish Legal Clinics Foundation officially opened the new project aimed at setting up the first clearing house in Poland. The project has been introduced during a meeting on the pro bono work and social responsibility of lawyers organized in the Polish Constitutional Tribunal. We invited representatives of the Polish bar associations and lawyers from the leading law firms in Poland to discuss the pro bono culture in Poland. All our guests emphasized in their short speeches a tremendous social need for free of charge legal aid, in particular a difficult situation of NGOs. Judge Stepien – the President of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal paid tribute to NGOs and their crucial role in a process of building up a strong civil society in Poland. All participants agreed that there is a serious problem that most NGOs have no access to private sector resources. Possible remedy for this situation would be to institutionalize pro bono practice by law firms and individual lawyers. This is a task that the Polish Legal Clinics Foundation is going to undertake by building up the Pro Bono Center . The meeting has been concluded by signing up a declaration "Polish Lawyers for the Public Good".
Polish Lawyers for the Public Good / Pro Bono Publico Declaration >>>