Fler brottsoffer ska få tillgång till rättshjälp

The government now wants to strengthen the position of crime victims in the legal process Many people are alone when a case is sent to the court of appeal or when a claim for damages is considered separately Therefore the government wants to expand the right to legal assistance and ensure that the support follows the victim throughout the process We can see that in too many cases the need for support from a complainant's representative when appealing a judgment to the court of appeal is that the court is too slow to describe today At the same time the government sees a need for stricter requirements for lawyers The background is several cases where lawyers have violated professional ethics and in some cases also committed crimes The Bar Association and the Bar are independent An important part of it is also taking great care of one's own supervision Of course if you have been given this trust it also means you must live up to high expectations and demands on how you handle it To strengthen the position of crime victims the inquiries suggest that a person affected by a crime should be able to retain their legal representative even when a claim for damages is changed Sometimes the claim for damages is too complicated to handle within the criminal case so it is made into a separate civil lawsuit it is severed But when there has been a claim for damages exceeding half the base amount which is approximately 30 000 kronor then you may keep your litigation representative They have had it under so they have not been able to do it But it was an explosion in Hässelby and I think there were about a hundred compensation claims that were separated and made into a special dispute Then about half of them were the so-called small claims so they could not keep their claim representative They got a worse outcome it was better for them to have in the criminal case But therefore it is now proposed that one should retain the assistance of a claimant's representative regardless of the size of the damage claim even when the damage claim is small So it is a way to strengthen the right of the victim