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During the period 1995 to about 2000, various justice delivery institutions strengthened their performance in a number of areas ranging from legislation, policy interventions, institutional establishments, research, pilot initiatives, and programmatic interventions. Similarly, civil society organisations (CSOs), engaged in interventions that targeted the users of the justice delivery agencies with major focus on human rights education, legal rights awareness as well as legal aid. The Legal Aid Service Providers' Network in Uganda (LASPNET) was subsequently conceived in early 2001 as a loose coalition to steer involvement of the private sector players in addressing the issues directly affecting the poor and their access to justice. LASPNET was then registered and formalised its status in April 2004 as a company limited by guarantee to promote access to justice in close working relationship with the Justice, Law and Order Sector (JLOS) and through support from the Legal Aid Bask

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