The absence of a scheme of civil legal aid was found in \u00a0Airey v \u00a0Ireland to be a denial of the right of access to the court.\u00a0 Mrs Airey had sought separation from her husband.<\/p>\n
The Irish State introduced an informal civil legal aid scheme in the wake of the case, which was put on a statutory basis in the Civil Legal Aid Act 1995.\u00a0 The scheme is relatively modest compared with other jurisdictions.<\/p>\n
It is an important principle of the Article that parties are to have equal opportunity to present their side of the case so that neither should enjoy a significant advantage over the other. \u00a0In certain cases, this will require legal representation and legal aid. Whether r legal aid is required will depend on the seriousness of the accusations.<\/p>\n\n
\n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fair Trial in Public The European Convention on Human Rights provides for the right to a fair trial and a right not to be punished other than in accordance with law.\u00a0 These rights run in parallel to the rights provided in the Irish Constitution.\u00a0 See the chapter on the rights to due process and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20942,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261\/revisions\/20942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}