Legal Counselling

Our staff attorneys provide citizens with free legal consultations at public drop-in centers in Yekaterinburg and Sverdlovsk oblast, as well as over the telephone and on-line (see. www.sutyajnik.ru/cgi-bin/advices.php).

The number of citizens coming to our organization with complaints about the mechanism of human rights protection under the Russian legal system remained roughly the same between 2004 and 2005. The number of questions on labor and housing law, as well as on the international protection of human rights, increased considerably.

An analysis of citizen’s questions demonstrates that their awareness and understanding of the Russian legal system and European Court of Human Rights has increased.

In 2005 we gave 856 free consultations. Of these, 199 were conducted over the telephone, 249 were given in public receptions, and 408 were written or conducted over our website.

Topics covered in our consultations included the following:

1. Application to the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Committee on Human Rights – 40%;
2. Civil procedure – 11%;
3. Labor law – 16%;
4. Civil law – 10%;
5. Housing law – 8%;
6. Tax law – 1%;
7. Administrative law – 4%;
8. Family law – 2%;
9. Social security – 8%

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Non-governmental organization Sutyajnik: We Are Sutyajnik. 2005 ANNUAL REPORT. Yekaterinburg, Ural University Press, 2006.