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Free legal aid was meant to ensure legal assistance and due process for low-income citizens, but the system is dysfunctional and inadequate, an analysis shows. The justice minister promises reform.

Urgent need to reform legal aid: Far too few people know how it works

Illustration: Tomas Østergren. Grafik: Magnific
Illustration: Tomas Østergren. Grafik: Magnific

»This is a black mark on the Danish state and rule-of-law – one we should have scrubbed away years ago«.

That was the verdict from the think tank Justitia when the European Commission in July – for the third year in a row – pressed the Danish government to strengthen and upgrade Denmark’s legal aid system.

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