Indigenous Australians & Family Law Litigation: Indigenous
Perspectives on Access to Justice is the report of this study.
Indigenous Australians and Family Law Litigation: Indigenous
Perspectives on access to justice.
Sam Glover: We need to take a quick break to hear from our sponsors, and when we come back I want to talk about your unique
perspective on access to justice, because you're not serving the poorest of the poor, but it comes up a lot in your clientele and just in the work that you do.
Not exact matches
From the
perspective of someone
on the other side of the «digital divide», every dollar spent
on digital
access to justice projects might very well be a dollar taken away from other projects that could serve them better.
It is too early
to know what action should flow from the evidence, but it is anticipated that this may include an array of reforms affecting formal court procedures, frontline legal service entry and information points, changes in legal and judicial culture, alternative models of legal practice, multi-sector
perspectives on investment in
access to justice, and effective public involvement in the change process.
In part I of the report, the Action Committee presents a view of
access to justice that is much broader than the traditional
perspective that has focused
on courts, tribunals, judges and lawyers.
A
perspective that regarded individuals as being free
to frame, manage and resolve their disputes as they deem best and
to involve the state (e.g., judges) only
on a «by exception» basis, would likely come
to a different assessment of what
access to justice entailed.
If one assumes that «
access to justice» and «
justice» are public goods that the state takes over as soon as it detects a legal dispute (e.g.,
on filing a Notice of Civil Claim), then one's
perspective changes.
On April 14, 2016, West Coast LEAF's Executive Director and Director of Litigation appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights in Ottawa to offer our expert perspective on the barriers to women's access to justice in Read Mo
On April 14, 2016, West Coast LEAF's Executive Director and Director of Litigation appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee
on Justice and Human Rights in Ottawa to offer our expert perspective on the barriers to women's access to justice in Read Mo
on Justice and Human Rights in Ottawa to offer our expert perspective on the barriers to women's access to justice in Re
Justice and Human Rights in Ottawa
to offer our expert
perspective on the barriers to women's access to justice in Read Mo
on the barriers
to women's
access to justice in Re
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West Coast LEAF was invited
to share with the
Justice Committee our expert perspectives on these important issues and their impacts on women's access to j
Justice Committee our expert
perspectives on these important issues and their impacts
on women's
access to justicejustice.
Participants explored the
justice system from the «user»
perspective and approach
access to justice as a hands -
on design challenge — they gathered the information needed
on how the
justice system works, imagined how best
to respond
to the gaps and weaknesses of the current system, and had
to develop a prototype that will improve it.