Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The future of the Doha Round
- PART ONE Development policy of the WTO
- PART TWO Trade policy (including competition) and trade facilitation
- PART THREE Reform of the dispute settlement system
- 11 Reforming the dispute settlement system through practice
- 12 Reforming the Dispute Settlement Understanding
- 13 The WTO dispute settlement system: Jurisdiction, interpretation and remedies
- 14 An evaluation of the role of legal aid in international dispute resolution, with emphasis on the Advisory Centre on WTO Law
- PART FOUR Social rights, health, and environment
- PART FIVE Conclusions
- Index
14 - An evaluation of the role of legal aid in international dispute resolution, with emphasis on the Advisory Centre on WTO Law
from PART THREE - Reform of the dispute settlement system
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The future of the Doha Round
- PART ONE Development policy of the WTO
- PART TWO Trade policy (including competition) and trade facilitation
- PART THREE Reform of the dispute settlement system
- 11 Reforming the dispute settlement system through practice
- 12 Reforming the Dispute Settlement Understanding
- 13 The WTO dispute settlement system: Jurisdiction, interpretation and remedies
- 14 An evaluation of the role of legal aid in international dispute resolution, with emphasis on the Advisory Centre on WTO Law
- PART FOUR Social rights, health, and environment
- PART FIVE Conclusions
- Index
Summary
Access to international justice should not be impeded by financial inequality.
H.E. Judge Gilbert Guillaume, President of the International Court of JusticeToday, and within the framework of the WTO dispute settlement system, the Advisory Centre for WTO Law takes another, almost revolutionary, step forward in international adjudication, by establishing itself as the first true centre for legal aid within the international legal system.
Michael Moore, Former Director of the WTOIntroduction
The Advisory Centre on WTO Law (the ‘ACWL’) is the only international organisation that was created specifically to provide dedicated legal assistance to developing countries and least developed countries. As the ACWL's Management Board noted in a recent Report, when the founders of the ACWL decided to create an intergovernmental organisation designed to enhance the credibility of the WTO dispute settlement system and to ensure that developing and least developed countries could participate effectively in that system by providing legal aid in WTO dispute settlement proceedings and WTO law generally, they implemented an idea that had never previously been tried in practice in international relations.
The ACWL is the only organisation in international law that exclusively provides legal assistance to developing countries and least developed countries. Legal aid has been provided through other schemes to enable poor countries to litigate and thus defend and pursue their interests. Thus, trust funds have been set up by various tribunals to assist litigants and secretariats have been tasked with providing technical and legal assistance.
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- Agreeing and Implementing the Doha Round of the WTO , pp. 308 - 332Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008
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