On SLAW, JP Boyd offers some thoughts on legislative intelligibility and the rule of law.
Category International
Can Law Schools be Incubators of Innovation?
At Open Law Lab, Margaret Hagan’s posting on whether law schools can be effective innovation incubators.
Is The Internet a Place for Legal Help?
At Open Law Lab, Margaret Hagan has an interesting piece titled “Is the internet the place for legal help?”.
This means that we should not stake all our work on exclusively Internet-based resources — but that we should still be investing a much larger amount of research, money & development into making the Internet more usable as a legal resource.
Digital Delivery of Legal Services to People on Low Incomes
The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
Wonderful work from the The Legal Education Foundation.
“We are very pleased to have commissioned this Report from Roger Smith. We hope that the Report will stimulate others to let us know of advances that they are making or are aware of others making in this important area of using information technology to provide low cost legal service to people. These developments are not a magic bullet but taken together they can make a difference to the lives of a lot of people. We intend to update the Report on an annual basis as a record of developments in the provision of IT based legal service.”
Guy Beringer
Chairman of Governors
When Access Isn’t Enough: Examining the Intersection Between Social Inequality and Access to Justice
The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
Blog post from Kimberley Byers draws from Alice Goffman’s new book On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City and looks at the links between access to justice and social inequality.
New International Report on Access to Justice
By: Chantel Amato
The International Bar Association (IBA), in collaboration with the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, released a report titled International Access to Justice: Barriers and Solutions on October 21st, 2014 at the IBA’s conference in Tokyo.
This study, based on findings from 26 countries, identifies many different types of barriers, such as social and cultural barriers, institutional barriers, as well as ‘intersectional’ barriers. The report notes that although efforts to improve access to justice are significant there is still much work to be done and provides some recommendations.
To read the report click here. The report is also attached as a PDF.
New Access to Justice Commission Formed in Arizona
By: Nicole Aylwin
A new State access to justice commission was formed last week in Arizona. To read about the new commission click here.
For those looking for resources on how to form and operate an A2J commission you may want to visit the American Bar Association Access to Justice Resource Centre. While the A2J Commission system is slightly different in the US than what is developing here in Canada – many of the resources are transferable.
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