As the FPA said, the object of the Agreement is interaction for the development of legal clinics created by universities. These clinics provide free legal assistance to citizens.
In general, during several SPBILF sessions the quality of legal aid and ways to improve it were discussed. Andrei Tuzov, senior professor of the Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminology of the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University, in one of the sessions stressed that the provision of legal assistance is a public legal function: every person has the right to receive assistance qualified legal. The Bar Association as a corporation is willing to unite the performance of this public function under its leadership. The Federal Bar Association has made many efforts to ensure adequate quality of legal aid and, in particular, has created a clearly organized system to improve the professional level of lawyers, he said.
Speaking about the quality of legal education, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Government of the Russian Federation to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Mikhail Barshchevsky recalled that in Soviet times there were 52 universities of law in our country. country, while there are currently around 600, and gave examples that show that having a law degree does not guarantee in-depth legal knowledge.
