The house of representative of Indonesia has enacted the bill of legal aid to a new legal aid law on October 4th 2011. 

UNODC has released a draft of the UN Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems. 

UNODC has released a draft of the UN Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems. 

In July 2007, the Economic and Social Council, by adopting resolution 2007/24 entitled "International cooperation for the improvement of access to legal aid in criminal justice systems, particularly in Africa", noted the prolonged incarceration of suspects and pre-trial detainees without their being provided with access to legal aid or to the courts and recognized that providing legal aid to suspects and prisoners may reduce the length of time suspects are held at police stations and detention centres, in addition to reducing the prison population, prison overcrowding and congestion in the courts. 

On 6 October 2011, the UK Supreme Court handed down decisions in the long-awaited “Sons of Cadder” test cases. 

UNDP in partnership with the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI), Country Offices in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Guinea Conakry as well as various Civil Society Organisations and National Human Rights Commissions (NHRCs) has engaged in research on the socio-economic impact of pre-trial detention in West Africa.

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention will undertake an official mission to Germany from 26 September to 5 October 2011, to assess the institutional and legal framework regarding deprivation of liberty in the country.

There is an assumption in the memorandum of understanding between Ireland and the EU-ECB-IMF that the implementation of the recommendations of the Competition Authority and the Legal Costs Working Group will reduce legal costs. But will they and are they enough?

This year the number of people held in SIZO [ore-trial detention centres] and penal institutions rose by around 8, 500 inmates.