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Access to Justice, Human Rights and Technology: from Russia with Love

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A conference in St Petersburg entitled ‘New Technology and the Law – a Human Rights perspective’ earlier this week provided an opportunity for a summary of the current state of the use of technology in relation to access to justice.  The conference was organised by the UK-based lawyers organisation Citizens Watch International. Most of the discussion … Continue reading Access to Justice, Human Rights and Technology: from Russia with Love →

LSC Technical Issues Conference – home thoughts from abroad

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The point of a conference report can sometimes seem unclear. If you were there, you don’t need it. And, if you weren’t, the proceedings – however riveting for those present- can seem more than a little distant. This is mainly for those not in New Orleans for the second day of the Legal Services Corporation … Continue reading LSC Technical Issues Conference – home thoughts from abroad →

Legal Information and Digital Delivery: a venerable Australian institution poses the questions

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 The Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales has been one of the leading institutions in the global access to justice field for over 50 years. Perceptive foreign observers were heaping praise on it in the 1990s (see Legal Action Group, A Strategy for Justice, 1992 and Roger Smith, Shaping the Future: new directions in … Continue reading Legal Information and Digital Delivery: a venerable Australian institution poses the questions →

Activists Speaking 7: Catrina’s Story – Catrina Denvir, Researcher

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I am an empirical researcher in the field of legal services, technology and access to justice. I spent the last few years in Belfast as Director of the Legal Innovation Centre at Ulster University and am about to return to my native Australia to take up a position as Senior Lecturer at Monash University. I … Continue reading Activists Speaking 7: Catrina’s Story – Catrina Denvir, Researcher →

Self Represented Litigants in England and Wales: the Litigants in Person Network

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The increasing importance of the role played litigants in person within the English and Welsh courts has been recognised by the creation of an online litigant in person network. The aim is to provide an online platform for the range of people, organisations and institutions involved in seeking to address the issues raised by what … Continue reading Self Represented Litigants in England and Wales: the Litigants in Person Network →