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Advocaat.be lauds the nuanced and positive nature of the Van Espen family's letter to the Parliamentary Committee on Justice at the end of April. Advocaat.be will explain in the hearing of the Parliamentary Committee on 4 July that one of the ways we support the Van Espen family's message is through our efforts in establishing and rolling out care centres after sexual violence.

For Advocaat.be, access to law and justice is central, for every litigant. The government must guarantee that right: article 23 of the Constitution stipulates that everyone has the right to legal assistance. The European Convention on Human Rights and European Union law confirm this.

Those who have objections to the issuance of an environmental permit must present arguments. A decree stipulated that all objections had to be raised with the administration during the award procedure and not later. Those who raised objections later had nowhere to go with their comments when the administration completed the procedure. We felt it was unfair that people could then also no longer have their arguments assessed by a judge. The Constitutional Court followed our reasoning in this and annulled the decree amendment in question.