19.05.2025
10:00–11:30
The Right to Legal Rights: Free Legal Aid through the Lens of International Experience
Congress Centre, conference hall B2 (2nd floor)
Making high-quality legal support accessible to everyone is a pressing task for modern society, which is why the development of free legal aid services is receiving growing attention. What is the international experience in organizing the provision of free legal aid? What are the current trends in regulating this system, aimed at properly ensuring citizens’ rights to qualified legal assistance, minimizing poor service, and preventing fraud? What is the structure of the state system of free legal aid, and who are its main participants? How is the non-state system of free legal aid developing, and who is involved? What best practices exist in the provision of free legal aid? What quality standards are in place, and what oversight mechanisms exist to ensure compliance? How is digital transformation affecting the institution of free legal aid?
Moderator
Roman Ryaby
Director of the Department for Development and Regulation of Legal Aid and Legal Services, Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation
Panellists
Khanh Ngoc Nguyen
President, Vietnam Lawyers Association
Ramaotwana Nelson Ramaotwana
Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services of the Republic of Botswana
Daniel Augusto Ramírez Herrera
Public Defender of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Franklin Jasson Rwezimula
Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Constitutional and Legal Affairs of the United Republic of Tanzania
Erlan Sarsembayev
Minister of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Oscar Manuel Silveira Martinez
Minister of Justice of the Republic of Cuba
Dilafruz Sufieva
Doctor of Philosophy in Law, Tashkent State Law University
Front row participants
Irina Lukyanova
Chairman of the Board, Center for the Development of Legal Clinics; Head of the Department of Procedural Law, All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Natalia Stotskaya
Executive Director, A1 Attorneys at law
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Roman Ryaby
Director of the Department for Development and Regulation of Legal Aid and Legal Services, Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation

Khanh Ngoc Nguyen
President, Vietnam Lawyers Association

Ramaotwana Nelson Ramaotwana
Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services of the Republic of Botswana

Daniel Augusto Ramírez Herrera
Public Defender of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Franklin Jasson Rwezimula
Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Constitutional and Legal Affairs of the United Republic of Tanzania

Erlan Sarsembayev
Minister of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Oscar Manuel Silveira Martinez
Minister of Justice of the Republic of Cuba

Dilafruz Sufieva
Doctor of Philosophy in Law, Tashkent State Law University

Irina Lukyanova
Chairman of the Board, Center for the Development of Legal Clinics; Head of the Department of Procedural Law, All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

Natalia Stotskaya
Executive Director, A1 Attorneys at law