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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10630

9 June 2012
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha
Access to lawyer - Council requests legal aid instrument

Luxembourg, 08/06/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 8 June in Luxembourg, European ministers for justice reached an agreement on the broad guidelines for a directive governing defendants' rights to a lawyer at the beginning of their custody. Ministers also called on the European Commission to provide them with a legal instrument (the details of which still need to be worked out) on the question of legal aid. On Friday, member states expressed a wish to obtain assurances that this access to a...

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