Professor Gerard Whyte:

Some European countries, particularly the Netherlands, have a mixed delivery system, which involves a service model complemented by a strategic model. Lawyers and legal firms deliver legal aid to individual clients, complemented by a network of law centres doing the more strategic work. We have that de facto here, when we combine the State sector with the private sector because, as I indicated earlier, the State sector and the Legal Aid Board are essentially service models. However, the work done by the community law centres and the different legal aid groups is more strategic.