A woman who needs free legal assistance complains about the operation of the Bar Association

"There is only one worker, they only attend by number and only twelve numbers are given per day", denounces this citizen, who claims that she has already gone three times without being attended to

December 27 2019 (11:32 WET)
A woman in need of free legal assistance complains about the functioning of the Bar Association
A woman in need of free legal assistance complains about the functioning of the Bar Association

A woman has contacted La Voz to complain about the operation of the Lanzarote Bar Association, which she claims to have visited these days to request free legal assistance. And, according to her, these Christmas days "there is only one worker, they only attend by number and only twelve numbers are given per day."

"How can it be that they only attend to twelve cases a day, that twelve numbers are given for an entire island?", criticizes this citizen, who claims that she has already gone to the Bar Association three times without having managed to be attended to. 

This woman explains that she wants to request free legal assistance to denounce the Arrecife City Council, after suffering an accident in a street in the capital last October after putting her foot in "a hole" in the road and fracturing a toe. 

After that, she claims that the first thing she did was report the events to the City Council, but they did not give her an answer. "Eva de Anta was the mayor and they told me that I had to wait to see if they would give me an answer within six months and that if they didn't answer me, it would be assumed that it had been denied," says this woman who, however, after this time and in the absence of a response, decided to return to the City Council and ask for a "presumed act", a document certifying the administrative silence that the administration itself must issue. "And they didn't give it to me because they said they couldn't because there was no technician," she says. 

So, now she has decided to request free legal assistance and take her case to the Courts. However, she fears "that the year will end without being able to submit the documentation." 

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