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Domestic Violence Act Application Forms A Guide to the Juvenile Justice Act 2018UNICEF has kindly given permission for the electronic version of their guide to be made available on our site as a means of public education Please click here to access the guide Sexual Offences HandbookHelp & Shelter has kindly given permission for the electronic version of their Sexual Offences Act Handbook to be made available on our site as a means of public education |
About usGuyana Legal Aid Clinic (formerly Georgetown Legal Aid Clinic) is a non-governmental, non-profit making, non-partisan organisation that provides legal aid to persons who cannot afford to employ the services of a member of the private bar. We are registered in Guyana as a company limited by guarantee and have charitable status. The Clinic opened in March 1994 in offices kindly provided by the Government of Guyana. We have to date been supported primarily by the Government of Guyana and USAID, but have also received donations in cash or kind from the British Government, the Canada Fund, Computer Aid International, individuals and the business community. We acknowledge and are grateful for every positive expression of support received. Since it opened, the Clinic has assisted over 46,500 people, the majority of them women, to vindicate and protect their rights under the Guyana justice system. MISSION: To promote the rule of law, human rights and justice MANDATE: To improve access to justice for the poor and other disadvantaged and vulnerable persons Our Objectives
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Our Finances As a non-profit organisation, we are very largely dependent upon financial and other support received from the government, donor agencies and socially conscious entities and individuals. We have in the past received several grants under bilateral arrangements between the governments of Guyana and the United States of America, including three grants under the USAID GDCCR (Guyana Democratic Consolidation & Conflict Resolution) Project. The Government of Guyana has supported the Clinic since it opened, providing us with our first attorneys-at-law on secondment, rent-free office space and an annual subvention, and true to its commitment to improve access to justice for the poor and other disadvantaged and vulnerable persons throughout Guyana, has, since 2008, provided the Clinic with approximately $32 million a year to enable the expansion and continuation of legal aid services. It is in view of the expansion of legal aid services enabled with government funding that the name of the Clinic was in September 2008 changed from Georgetown Legal Aid Clinic to Guyana Legal Aid Clinic. We comply with the specific financial accountability requirements of our donors, and our auditors, Ram & McRae, perform audits of our annual accounts. Our 2020, 2021 and 2022 Audited Accounts are below. Please click here to access the PDF version of our 2019 audited accounts. Please click here to access the PDF version of our 2018 audited accounts. Please click here to access the PDF version of our 2017 audited accounts. Please click here to access the PDF version of our 2016 audited accounts. Please click here to access the PDF version of our 2015 audited accounts. Please click here to access the PDF version of our 2014 audited accounts. Please click here to access the PDF version of our 2013 audited accounts. Please click here to access the PDF version of our 2012 audited accounts. Please click here to access the PDF version of our 2011 audited accounts. Please click here to access the PDF version of our 2010 audited accounts. Please click here to access the PDF version of our 2009 audited accounts. Please click here to access the PDF version of our 2008 audited accounts. Please click here to access the PDF version of our 2007 audited accounts. Please click here to access the PDF version of our 2006 audited accounts.
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GAWL's The Law & You VThe Guyana Association of Women Lawyers has recently published The Law and You V, which consolidates and updates the previous volumes I, II, II, and IV, and adds new topics. Protection from Domestic Violence (GAWL 2022)This factsheet tells you about the law relating to domestic violence, and how to apply for a protection Booklets about the Revised Constitution of Guyana 2001The Women and Gender Equality Commission has kindly given permission for the electronic version of their booklets on the Revised Constitution of Guyana 2001 to be made available on our website as a means of public education. Red Thread's Household Guide to the Domestic Violence ActRed Thread Women's Development Organisation has kindly given permission for their Household Guide to the Domestic Violence Act to be accessed from our website. |