Legal tip 363. Figures on legal aid lawyers in Spain
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 @ 6:06 PM
The observatory for Legal aid lawyers in Spain corresponding to 2009, says:
- There are 38.000 Legal aid lawyers in Spain. Their average age is of 41 years old and have been working as lawyers for 13,5 years.
- Cataluña has a 24,2% of them, followed by Madrid (20,5%) and Andalucía (15,1%).
- Qualifications issued by users of this service are of 6,4
- 2 of 3 citizens do not find problems with the service
- 72% say that service by the Legal aid lawyer was good or very good, just 8% says it was bad or very bad.
- Main problem is slowness of processes. As a result of a bad functioning of the Justice administration (76%), Civil Procedure ( 12%) or the opponent party (3%)
- For a 76% it was easy to obtain this benefit.
- 2 of every 5 thinks the State needs to invest more on this service.
Punta de Europa, Gibraltar by Roberto Pecino at Flickr.com