法律救助法上 法律救助에 관한 小考

Legal aid in the legal aid act means providing any person with all support concerning legal consultation, a representation of a lawsuit by an attorney-at-law or a public-service advocate as prescribed by the Public-Service Advocates Act and other legal affairs, in order to achieve the purpose to protect fundamental human rights and to further contribute to the promotion of legal welfare by providing legal aid to those in economic difficulty, or not adequately protected enough by the law due to ignorance of the law. Legal aid system is ranked as an essential factor in a modern welfare state. In Korea, there was much discussion about the invigoration of the legal aid system and there was an attempt to do change on the basis of the result of discussion. As the legal aid system is invigorated than in the past, there is still room for improvement. This article reviews how the change for the invigoration of the legal aid system in the law affected the practice on the basis of the jurisdiction yearbooks and estimates the present condition of the invigoration of the system. This helps try something new for the invigoration of the system. Additionally, this article reviews several issues which are the ways to expand of the scope or subject of the legal aid and supporting the private legal aid corporations for the invigoration of the legal aid system.