LAC Annual Report 2008 now available

Legal Aid of Cambodia’s Annual Report for 2008 is now available. The report can be downloaded by clicking on LAC Annual Report 2008.

An excerpt from the report details some of LAC’s activities for the last year:

192 cases received a fair and just trial with the 83 lost cases. 63 cases were omitted from the record of the courts due to the process of the cases were too long and the courts and lawyers could not find the clients. The fair and just trial was defined as following:

• The procedure of the case is conduct properly
• The clients were acquitted of charge and found not guilty
• The charge to clients was change to the lower charge
• The mitigation circumstance was applied to the case
• The punishment to the clients were in accordance with the offend committed by
• the clients, referred to the investigation by lawyers
• The punishment to the clients was matched to the guilty found
• The numbers of complaint cases to appeal was in small amount

Additionally, the fair compensation was defines as the compensation is proper comparing to the damage and the perpetrators were punishes and found guilty.