2013 2014 2015 TOTAL 2031 5440 1080 9574 1004 266 0 2010 3035 5706 1080 11584 Statistics of the type of cases received from inception of the Pilot Project up to 30th September 2014 by NGOs. Type of case Family law Land Industrial/Labour Contractual disputes Delictual damages Wills and Estates Criminal Other TOTAL Finalized Handed over to LAB EMANG BASADI 674 27 0 20 DITSHWANELO BONELA WAR TOTAL 320 72 148 54 90 7 34 15 83 4 8 7 1167 110 190 96 7 39 118 4 168 1 0 0 729 67 24 0 21 120 774 233 105 15 4 98 381 23 25 8 5 7 126 35 120 24 30 225 2010 358 274 As reflected above, Cooperation agreements with NGOs promote access to justice since they are a cost effective way of providing legal services to the indigent. For an expenditure of 2,850,000 million Pula (US$310,000), the NGOs finalized 358 matters and did some work on 781 pending matters. 5. Section 56 of the Legal practitioners Act requires every legal practitioner to do pro deo work, thereby promoting the right to be tried within a reasonable time. However, pro deo fees paid by the government are nominal and this may impact on the quality of legal representation that clients receive from lawyers. The difficulty with section 56 of the Legal Practitioners Act is: 1. Many senior lawyers in private practice do not wish to do pro Deo work. The fees are too low. Some public spirited legal practitioners in private practice take on pro Deo work – but not enough. Between the Registrar and the Law Society the result is that most of the pro Deo work is distributed to junior legal practitioners who are willing to accept such instructions and at least earn something. The result is that murder cases are often defended by junior legal practitioners who, ideally, should be honing their forensic skills in less serious matters in the magistrates’ courts. The pro Deo system helps to train junior legal practitioners, but is less suitable for the defence of the most 41 | P a g e