Street Law Festival? – Why not? Street Law Festival on-line? – No problem. Throughout the 21st to 23rd July 2020 over 150 participants from Ukraine, Poland, Georgia, and USA engaged in substantive discussions, webinars and presentations in the course of the First in Ukraine Innovative Festival of Practical Law Fin $kills. The event was held by the Association of Legal Clinics of Ukraine backed by the USAID Financial Sector Transformation Project and was dedicated to protect rights of consumers of financial services and to financial awareness. While opening the Festival, Yuliia Lomzhets, Head of the Association of Legal Clinics of
The team of the Association of Legal Clinics of Ukraine has developed within the All-Ukrainian project of The Advising Consumers of Financial Services the guidelines for training on practical law, Street law: Protection of Consumer Rights in Financial Services Sector. The presented guidelines are the result of law literacy classes carried out by the legal clinics of higher education institutions for consumers of financial services. Materials included in the publication were tested in the course of the First in Ukraine Innovative Festival of Practical Law Fin $kills dedicated to protect consumer rights in the sector of financial services and to
A People’s Deputy from the settlement of Gusiatyn in Ternopil region has sued the local council which failed to provide disabled persons with access to the session hall. How the lawyers managed to prove that such omission constituted an act of indirect discrimination? Ivan Kosmyna became deputy of Gusiatyn settlement council in Ternopil region in 2015. He has the first disability group and moves with wheelchair. It is impossible to get to the session hall on the third floor, yet the building has no elevator. It was costly to install a lift, then the deputy proposed to held working sessions