Approaches to compensating parties for legal aid costs were
significantly liberalised after the new editions of procedural
codes became effective and the advocacy institute was reformed. It
gives hope for transformation of a helpless mechanism into an
efficient means of court costs reallocation.
Conceptual element of the new approach was waiver of legislative
regulation of compensation limits, which did not reflect the real
attorney's fees and pricing policy on legal services market, as
well as direct orientation to the conditions of legal aid
agreements between a client and an attorney. The approach
proclaimed by the legislator allowed the legal community to rely on
introduction of civilised rules of the game, and provided clients
with the opportunity to transfer the burden of paying for legal
services to a party to a dispute against whom a judgment was
made.
