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                     We provide free legal
                      advice and assistance to the person or persons or
                      organisations who really deserve. 
                     
                    
                    Most liberal democracies
                      consider that it is necessary to provide some level of
                      legal aid to persons otherwise unable to afford legal
                      representation. To fail to do so would deprive such
                      persons of access to the court system. Alternately, they
                      would be at a disadvantage in situations in which the
                      state or a wealthy individual took them to court. This
                      would violate the principles of equality before the law
                      and due process under the rule of law. 
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                     A number of delivery
                      models for legal aid have emerged. In a "staff attorney"
                      model, lawyers are employed on salary solely to provide
                      legal assistance to qualifying low-income clients, similar
                      to staff doctors in a public hospital. In a "judiciary"
                      model, private lawyers and law firms are paid to handle
                      cases from eligible clients alongside cases from
                      fee-paying clients, much like doctors are paid to handle
                      Medicare patients in the U.S. The "community legal clinic"
                      model comprises non-profit clinics serving a particular
                      community through a broad range of legal services (e.g.
                      representation, education, law reform) and provided by
                      both lawyers and non-lawyers, similar to community health
                      clinics. 
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