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Justice Centres staff holding a Legal Aid Clinic

Justice Centres Uganda, is coming to the end of the three year pilot phase on 30^th June 2013. As part of the activities to mark the end of pilot phase, Justice Centres Uganda is holding a two day open legal aid clinic in which the public will be offered free legal aid services from 18^th to 19^th June 2013, at the Constitutional Square in Kampala. 

In carrying out this activity, Justice Centres Uganda will collaborate with other Justice Law and Order Sector (JLOS) institutions including; the Uganda Police Force, Uganda Prisons Service, Judiciary, Uganda Law Council (ULC), Uganda Law Society (ULS), Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC), Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and Department of the Administrator General and other legal aid service providers and non state actors, such as Paralegal Advisory Services (PAS), Legal Aid Service Providers Network (LASPNET), Uganda Christian Lawyers Fraternity (UCLF), National Union of Disabled Persons in Uganda (NUDIPU), Uganda Women Lawyers Association (FIDA).

The activity is intended to bring together the access to justice institutions, for purposes of enabling members of the public have their legal and human rights issues addressed by the Institutions to which these challenges relate, in a bid to bring access to justice closer to the people.