justice.gov.il Procedure for submitting an application & receipt of Legal Aid Israel : Ministry of Justice

Name of the Organization : Ministry of Justice
Type of Facility : Procedure for submitting an application and receipt of Legal Aid
Country : Israel

Official Website : http://www.justice.gov.il/MOJEng/Hadracha/MadrichSiyuaMispati/HagasatBakasa.htm

Procedure for submitting an application & receipt of Legal Aid

** Downloading from the Legal Aid Department’s website.
** Application to the welfare departments in the Local Authorities or in some of the voluntary organizations. The Form can be obtained free of charge from all of them.

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** The Form can be obtained at the Legal Aid Bureau nearest to where you live.
** It is recommended that you copy the complete application form and bring it to the
** The Application Form must be submitted to the Bureau nearest to where you live, one of the five bureaus operated by the Department.

The Form can be submitted :
** By sending it in the mail or by Fax to the nearest bureau to where you reside.
** As a general rule, Sundays-Thursdays between 8.30am and 12.30pm
** In the Tel Aviv and Haifa Bureaus also on Tuesday between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.
** In the Nazareth Bureau also on Wednesday between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.
** Advance payment on account of participation fee.
** Following receipt of the Application the contents will be examined and should it be
** The advance payment must be made in one of the Post Office branches.
** In the later stages – if it has been so decided, in light of the contents of the application
** Exemption from advance payment and participation fee

advance payment and the participation fee :
** Regulation 3B (a) grants exemption from payment of participation fee to the following applicants :
** A prisoner, a person under arrest, a soldier in compulsory military service (except service in the reserves), a mentally ill person who is hospitalized in a Psychiatric Hospital and a minor who is entitled to representation separately from a parent when a Plaintiff or a Defendant other than through the parent.

Regulation 3B (b) stipulates cases in which an exemption from payment of the fee applies, and they are :
** Legal Aid under the Hague Convention (Return of Abducted Children) Law, 5751-1991 and under the 1958 New York Convention as to recovery of maintenance abroad.
** An Application for a Protection Order under the Prevention of Domestic Violence
** Legal Aid under Section 397 of the National Insurance Law, 5755-1995.
** An applicant living in a shelter for battered women will be exempt from payment of a
** An applicant whom the Execution Office has declared to be a debtor of restricted means and is charged a monthly payment of not exceeding NIS 250.

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