Legal consultation "Legal clinic" (hereinafter - the Legal clinic) was established pursuant to the order of the Rector of the National Aviation University on October 13, 2004 № 215/OD as a basis for practical training and conduct practical training students of senior courses, is a structural subdivision of the Law Institute of the National Aviation University (hereinafter - LI) and acting under the provisions, approved the Rector of the National Aviation University with the requirements of the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine "On approval of the typical position of the legal clinic of university of Ukraine" dated 03.08.2006 № 592, registered with the Ministry Justice of Ukraine on 08.08.2006 under № 956/12830 and Decree of the President of Ukraine on October 18, 2001 № 992 "On the National Program of Legal Education of the population."

Activity of the legal clinic has for an object:

• enhancing the level of the practical knowledge, ability and skills of students of legal specialities;
• ensuring access of vulnerable groups in society to legal aid;
• forming a legal culture of citizens;
• training and education of students in the spirit of compliance and respect to the principles of supremacy of law, justice and human dignity;
• expansion cooperation of universities that train legal professionals, with the judicial, law enforcement, justice, state and local authorities, other agencies and organizations;
• introduction of elements of practical training of law students in the educational process in the field of legal services;
• increasing of the general level of legal culture and improving of the system of legal education of the population, acquiring by the citizens of necessary level of legal knowledge, the formation of their of respect to the law.
In the activity the legal clinic follows the Law of Ukraine "On higher education", the Decree of the President of Ukraine "On the national program of legal education of the population," the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine " On approval of the typical position of the legal clinic of university of Ukraine ", Position on legal consultation "Legal Clinic", instructions, orders and instructions of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, of the Rector of the university, the representative of a senior management of the university from quality, decisions of the Academic Council of the University and Academic Council of the Institute, decisions of the Council on the quality of the university and the Commission on quality of the Institute, other regulations SMQ regulating the practical work of legal consultation "Legal Clinic".
The legal Clinic is not a legal entity.
The legal Clinic as a structural subdivision can have those stamps and letterheads with its own name.
The legal Clinic to achieve their aims uses the property of the National Aviation University.

Objectives of the legal clinic

The main objectives of the legal clinics are:
- providing of students of the legal clinic of acquiring skills of practical activity in the specialty;
- creating places for passing students learning and work practice;
- providing of citizens of socially vulnerable groups of society free legal advice;
- activities of legal education of the population;
- providing intercourse of students during the learning process with practitioners of judicial and law enforcement agencies, other state agencies and local authorities on their activities;
- the creation of an effective mechanism of information exchange between the public, the media and the legal clinic that will allow operatively to react to the practical needs of citizens;
- the creation of appropriate conditions for the acquisition of knowledge by citizens of their rights, freedoms and responsibilities;
- wide informing of citizens of legal policy and state law;
- providing of free public access to sources of legal information;
- improvement of the system of the legal education of population, preservation and development of national traditions in this area;
- strengthening of humanistic legal ideas, universal and national legal values, high moral principles in public life;
- an assistance to the self-education of the population on the question of the law and the state;
- providing of the openness of legal information, access all sections of the population to its sources.
According to the aim and objectives of the legal clinic of the university, for its full and effective functioning the Director of the legal clinic, the Director of LI, the Rector of the National Aviation University, organize and provide:
- conducting of special course on "Fundamentals of legal clinical practice", which include the principles and functions of legal clinics, and the attention focuses on the basic aspects of law practice;
- conducting of theoretical and practical training as a result of the activity of the legal clinic;
- conducting law educational, explanatory and other educational and practical measures;
- free legal aid for the protection of human rights and freedoms and institutions from all branches of law in accordance with the laws of Ukraine;
- working with legal documents and databases;
- preparation and distribution of publications to the public on topical legal issues;
- cooperation with representatives of public and private agencies and organizations;
- conducting of scientific and practical conferences, seminars, workshops and other events on topical legal issues;
- working of systematization and analysis of judicial practice in Ukraine, decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, decisions of the legal issue in law enforcement, state and local authorities;
- cooperation with other legal clinics of universities in Ukraine and abroad.

Principles of the legal clinics

The legal clinic operates on the principles of:
- respect to law, justice and human dignity;
- focus on the protection of human rights and freedoms;
- humanism;
- legality and the supremacy of law;
- objectivity;
- gratuitousness of legal assistance;
- confidentiality;
- competence and honesty.

Organization of the activity of the legal clinic

The structure and number of employees of the legal clinic is determined by the Director of LI.
The composition of the legal clinic include: the Director, the  Law Consultant, student-consultants, teachers-curators.
The Director of the legal clinic is appointed to the established current labor legislation by order of the Rector of the National Aviation University.
The position of the Director of the legal clinic may be appointed a person who has a full law degree (Specialist and Master), experience in the field of law for at least 5 years.
The Director of the legal clinic provides general management of the clinic, organizes its work and monitors the performance of its tasks.
The rights and the obligations of the Director of the legal clinic are defined in the job description, payment conditions - in the employment contract.
The Law Consultant of the  legal clinic is appointed to the established current labor legislation by order of the Rector of the National Aviation University.
The Law Consultant of the legal clinic provides current organization of its work, provides the necessary methodological and theoretical support for students - consultants: decides on the admissibility of the case, its referral to the student; control the activities of students in accordance the legal aid to legal requirements and professional ethics.
Rights and obligations of the Law Consultant are defined in the job description, payment conditions - conditions of the employment contract.
Consultants of the legal clinic are students of senior courses who study in the direction of "right" in LI and provide legal assistance under the direction of teachers-tutors and the Law Consultant. The order of their involvement in the work of legal clinics, terms of performing their duties, the number of students - consultants - are determined by the Decree of the Director LI.
Teachers- tutors provide the necessary methodological and theoretical support for students-consultants: decide on the admissibility of the case, its referral to the student, acting as tutors for each appeal, and provide theoretical training, which is also part of the clinical education of student, control the activities students in accordance the legal aid to legal requirements and professional ethics.

Requirements for the organization of the legal clinic:

- National Aviation University and LI create and provide the proper conditions for the functioning of the legal clinic;
- information about the work of  legal clinics and Position about the legal clinic of the university are published in local media and posted in the premises in which the clinic is located, in places convenient for a free inspection of citizens;
- a legal clinic should provide the client with information about making his appeal for consideration or reasonably refuse such a decision;
- legal assistance is usually provided directly by considering the appeal.
- for reasons of inability to resolve the issue immediately for acceptance and if applicable additional study raised the question by the legal staff of the clinic can be made another time and procedure for considering appeals of the citizen;
- customers should be possible to submit the review about the quality of the legal aid to the Director of the legal clinic.
Registration of the accounting of the acceptance of citizens by  consultants of the legal clinic is accomplished by using the journal of the accounting of the earnings of the appeals of citizens.

The rights and responsibilities of students

Accepting of students for the legal clinic is based on the competition. Contest rules are determined by the Director of the legal clinic in agreement the Director of LI of the National Aviation University.
The student-consultant is entitled:
- to acquire knowledge and practical skills to apply in practice and use in future profession;
- to receive the material of  legal cases and information about the cases, which are conducted in the legal clinic, to take part in their discussion;
- to be present at consideration of cases, which are engaged in other students;
- to use the library and legal databases of the legal clinic;
- to take part in promotions, campaigns, projects, programs and other events organized legal clinics;
- to pass in the legal clinic educational and productive practices within the curriculum;
- to take part in solving of organizational issues of the legal clinic and accord proposals to leadership of the legal clinic to improve its performance.

The student-consultant of the legal clinic must:

- to attend theoretical classes, workshops, trainings, participate in other activities that take place within legal clinics;
- to constantly extend their professional knowledge and improve professional skills;
- to deal with the the adherence of moral norms and by preservation confidentiality;
- to adhere to the rules of internal orders, labor discipline;
- exactly, in time and qualitatively to execute the decisions and instructions of the guidance of the legal clinic passed within its competence;
- to rotate in a legal clinic on a fixed schedule, participate in advising of citizens;
- in accordance with instructions of the leadership of the legal clinic and in accordance with the applicable law to participate in the running of  the cases of the client of the legal clinic in the relevant agencies and institutions;
- in their activities guided by the principles and objectives of the legal clinic;
- to provide a written report on the results of the work.

Material and technical base of the activity of the legal clinic

National Aviation University provides for the legal clinic premises, the terms of which allow to locate vehicles and material resources necessary for the organization of the educational process, the implementation of the acceptance of citizens  with the aim  to provide legal assistance.
For material and technical support of the legal clinic computers are provided, which allow to work with the legal databases, the Internet, telephone equipment, furniture, stationery and more.

Financing of the legal clinic

Funding of the legal clinic is at the expense of the university, grants of international and Ukrainian organizations, charitable donations of individuals and organizations and other sources not prohibited by the legislation of Ukraine.
In March, 2013 the legal consultation "the Legal Clinic" of the Law Institute of the National Aviation University become a member of the Association of Legal Clinics of Ukraine – the Ukrainian public organization, whose mission is to support the work of legal clinics to promote clinical legal education and implementation of appropriate scientific and educational programs in Ukraine.

Director of legal clinic - Olena Osynska

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