Tens of thousands of Romanians cannot currently benefit from access to court proceedings due to low incomes. The Foundation for the Protection of Citizens Against State Abuses (FACIAS) calls for a change in the legal framework for effective public legal aid, a tool for low-income people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because they cannot afford the expenses that the lawsuits entail (judicial stamp duties, lawyers' fees, judicial experts, executors, etc.) many Romanians either give up the lawsuits or prefer to die with justice in their hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to statistics obtained by FACIAS from the Ministry of Justice, 31,561 requests for public legal aid were made last year, but of these only 19,164 requests were admitted. Thus, more than 10,000 people who applied for public legal aid, although they did not have the necessary funds to support a lawsuit, could not benefit from the reduction of the tax stamp and therefore their action was rejected by the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The current situation, reflected in last year's statistics, shows that at least a third of those who need public legal aid do not benefit from it, and one of the obstacles is legislative. The normative act has not been updated since its publication, and the reference values are those of 2008. The economic situation has undergone many changes since then, being necessary to harmonise the legal provisions with everyday realities. In practice, the thresholds set for the granting of public legal aid were made using the minimum gross wage from that date, which is currently significantly higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FACIAS has called for raising the thresholds for public legal aid so that more low-income citizens can go to court.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Zeci de mii de rom\u00e2ni nu pot beneficia, \u00een prezent, de acces la instan\u021be din cauza veniturilor mici. Funda\u021bia pentru Ap\u0103rarea Cet\u0103\u021benilor \u00cempotriva Abuzurilor Statului (FACIAS) cere modificarea cadrului legal…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,48,3],"tags":[159,78,463],"class_list":["post-9270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comunicate-de-presa","category-media","category-stiri","tag-facias","tag-justitie-2","tag-ministerului-justitiei"],"yoast_head":"\n