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Besides the right of defence, the People's Law Office was
assigned another job, namely sensitization of the people and
extension of legal advice and consultancy when requested with a
view to enlighten the masses vis-à-vis their legal rights, interpret
laws and elucidate their provisions to them without
remuneration.
The People's Law Office is one of the judicial bodies. Having
recourse to this judicial body is not obligatory but rather left to
the discretion of the person concerned who may either choose an
attorney at his own expense or to defend himself by himself.
The People's Law Office is headquartered in the City of Tripoli
and has (7) branches in each of the Appellate Court circuits,
with (25) affiliated offices in cities and villages of the Great
Jamhirya for the purpose of facilitating citizens' access to
defenders needless to move to metropolitan cities.
It has field offices in all reform and rehabilitation institutions to
enable inmates to seek legal defence without remuneration if
necessity calls for it, so that they will not have to face difficulty
accessing justice, given their status in these institutions and their
inability to frequent lawyers' offices in villages and cities. As
mentioned above, this Office is deemed a judicial body and its
members are eligible to have the same privileges and
immunities enjoyed by members of the other judicial bodies.