 acts specified above? Do legal aid arrangements cover these sorts of interventions by the lawyer?  Article 3(4) 27      Is there sufficient information made available at police stations and other detention sites to facilitate exercise of the right? How does this information interact with the Letter of Rights provided to suspects? -   Article 9 14, 39, 40    Member States should make general information available to facilitate the exercise of the right to access a lawyer. Article 3(4) and recital 27 call for particular effort to be made to assist those deprived of liberty. This requirement should be read together with the requirement for a Letter of Rights under the Right to Information Directive. See the work of the ‘Initiative Group’ (a group of Polish lawyers led by Polish LEAP members) which has sought to ensure better information about the right of access to a lawyer in Polish police stations.viii Your answers here Waiver The rights under the Directive can be waived. See the case-law of the ECtHR such as Pishchalnikov v. Russiaix and Zachar and Cierny v. Slovakiax and examples of relevant factors concerning the validity of waivers, as discussed earlier in this Toolkit. The provision of ‘clear and sufficient’ information about the content of the right and the consequences of waiving it is a precondition to the waiver being regarded as valid. This requirement should be read together with the Letter of Rights requirement in the Right to Information Directive. In that regard, see also the LEAP Toolkit on the Right to Information Directive. Particular attention should be paid to the situation of those with vulnerabilities. See paragraph 11 of the 40