The Chief Justice is also the Chair of the Advisory Committee of Pro Bono Law Ontario, which has initiated programs related to providing pro bono legal services.

In fact, we're actually looking for pro bono legal access.

We do have a small amount of pro bono work.well, there's a tradition of pro bono work at the bar, to start with, but we also have a new organization in Ontario, called Pro Bono Law Ontario, which serves people who would not qualify for legal aid.

In some Member States, legal advice on arrest is given on a pro bono basis by trainees and students.

The proposal is based on the following assumptions: recognition of five levels of qualification, initial continuous training, the free movement of professional services and not of pieces of paper; consultation with the professions; the thresholds proposed by recognised bodies; compliance with authorised national structures, whether bodies, colleges or associations; pro-forma registration; equality of rights and duties; legislative certainty; the elimination of bureaucratic red tape; the mutual recognition of professions exercised in individual States and, where necessary, at levels higher than corresponding qualifications; compl ...[+++]iance with insurance, social security and trade union rules.

Whilst not offering legal protection against piracy of conditional access services, this pro-competitive framework governs the provision of electronic communication networks and services in general and conditional access systems in particular, and is as such very important for the further development of the market in the coming years.