Legal Clinics and Access to Justice in Croatia: Perspectives and Challenges

In this article, I dwell upon the Croatian system of free legal aid in civil and administrative matters. The background of the system, its problems and deficiencies are firstly discussed. Primary attention is on the legal framework for legal clinics, their position within the system of legal education, the importance of their role within the system of free legal aid, types of legal assistance that legal clinics can provide and the way they are obtaining financial support for their operations. We shall also try to foresee the future of Croatian clinical legal education under the present normative scheme and propose some steps that, we firmly believe, have the actual capacity to promote further development of clinical legal education within the system of free legal aid