Children in criminal judicial proceedings - comparative information on legal counsel and representation
Description
Here you can find comparative information on children in criminal judicial proceedings - comparative information on legal counsel and representation for all the EU28 Member States on the basis of information collected from national and international databases. The data is available on e.g:
Statutory provision on the right to legal representation at all stages of the proceedings;
Existence of mandatory defence mechanism;
Percentage of children who have waived their right to a lawyer;
Statutory provision on the right of children (offender, victim and witness) to free legal aid;
Percentage of children questioned by the police in the absence of either a parent/trusted person or lawyer present;
System in place to assign automatic free legal aid to children, without conditions;
Children involved in criminal proceedings who received free legal aid in a 12 month period.
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Resources
- Criminal European Union Summary Report PDF
- Headline indicators Excel XLS
- Legal counsel and representation Excel XLS
- Masterlist Excel XLS
Documentation
- Type of Dataset
- Statistical
- Release Date
- 2016-11-16
- Modified Date
- 2017-01-04
- Temporal Coverage From
- 2008-01-01
- Temporal Coverage To
- 2011-01-01
- Geographical Coverage
- Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Belgium, Austria, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Germany, Czechia, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, United Kingdom, France, Croatia, Greece, Ireland, Hungary, Lithuania, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg
- Language
- English
- Catalogue
- European Union Open Data Portal
Contact
European Commission, DG Justice and Consumers, C2 Fundamental rights
Rue Montoyer 59, Brussels, Belgium
Tel: 0080067891011
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/fundamental-rights/rights-child/index_en.htm