Tag: legal aid

Legal aid in Italy is granted on a "menas test", soo taking into account only the financeial sitruation of the defendqnt (earnings less than 11500 euros / year).

In Italy legal aid depends on income of the applicant (and of her/his cohabiting relatives if he request regards a criminal court proceeding): more specifically, under Italian law legal aid is granted to everybody, citizen and non citizen, but only in litigation and only to those who are considered indigent ("means test").