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25 Law Democracy & Dev. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/laacydev25 and id is 1 raw text is: Promoting the quality of legal aid in South Africa through better co- ordination of service provision DAVE HOLNESS Director, UKZN Law Clinic. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000- 0002-1635-0078 ABSTRACT Socio-economically, South Africa is a grossly unequal country. For the indigent there is a clear need for legal aid services to enable meaningful access to the legal system as a mechanism to promote greater social justice. This article proposes mechanisms to meet two aims: to promote high-level free legal service provision through much improved co- ordination between legal service providers; and to inculcate a co-operative and integrated approach to legal aid services for satisfactory standards of legal aid provision. This research has a qualitative focus in contrast to almost all research on legal aid in South Africa, which has concentrated on the expansion of legal aid services quantitatively- ie in terms of increasing the number of clients Page I 1

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