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When charged with a criminal offence or slapped with a civil lawsuit, some do not know whom to turn to, while others realise there is help only late in the process.
This is despite publicity surrounding pro bono services for criminal and non-criminal matters, and free advice regularly offered at legal clinics. For example, the Migrant Workers’ Centre holds such a clinic every first and third Saturday of the month.
The issue of access to legal help was highlighted this month in the case involving Indonesian Parti Liyani. Accused of theft in 2016 by her employers and convicted for the crime, the former maid was cleared of all charges earlier this month after her pro bono lawyer Anil Balchandani fought for her acquittal.
Her employers of eight years were Changi Airport Group’s former chairman Liew Mun Leong and his family.
It was a non-governmental organisation (NGO) – the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (Home) – that helped her secure a lawyer.
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