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Paper: Financing Access to Justice: Innovating Possibilities To Promote Access For All
Published online: 16 April 2013 by Hague Journal on the Rule of Law.
Abstract: This paper explores the rationale for development actors to become more engaged in its pursuit of providing support for mass, sustainable mechanisms, which increase access to justice for the majority of people around the globe. It does so by demonstrating the importance of the historical evidence demonstrating finance as the key hindrance to individuals' accessing justice. Finally, it sets out two emerging areas that would be worthy of further investigation and support by the development community but which have at present received scant to no attention by the vast majority of ‘rule of law’ or ‘justice reform’ efforts.
Summary of HIIL Report: Towards Basic Justice Care for Everyone
I have recently announced the publication of HiiL's recent Report: Towards Basic Justice Care for Everyone, and have been meaning to summarize its findings (some which might run counter to the conservative legal tradition). This report was in part based on a meeting in The Hague on 16 and 17 April on the topic, that we attended. Summary follows (asie from the summary, you should read the report for highlights of some innovative approaches, that interestingly are not expensive) :
Southeast Asia Regional Meeting on Paralegals Nov 6-7 Jakarta
Southeast Asia Regional Meeting on Legal Workshop
Jakarta, Indonesia
November 6-7, 2012
Call for Applications
Does your organization provide community-based paralegal services in Southeast Asia? Are you interested in learning from the experiences of others to address common challenges? Do you want to know more about the impact your program is having, and how to improve on it?
The Open Society Justice Initiative, TIFA Foundation, Namati, and the Indonesian Legal Resource Center (ILRC) are bringing together legal empowerment practitioners from across Southeast Asia to a Regional Workshop for Community-Based Paralegal Programmes.
The training workshop will provide a space for NGO leaders and senior program managersto learn from each other about the breadth of legal empowerment methods employed in the region and methods for improving them. It will also offer participants an opportunity to explore their own monitoring and evaluation plans with some of the world’s leading experts in measuring the impact of legal empowerment.
For more information, click here. To download an application, click here. Applications are due on September 7, 2012.
Discussion on legal technology innovation, in San Francisco, California
Tim Hwang tells us http://twitter.com/
Most Pressing Need: Legal Information for the Layperson
Delivering legal information targeted on needs of disputants is key to legal empowerment. It came out as the number one strategy for improving access to justice when 100 experts discussed a Trend Report on Basic Justice Care.
"We the People" Software is now Open Source
The software that powers "We the People" https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions -- the epetition platform for the U.S. Presidency -- has been made free and open source and is now available on GitHub https://github.com/WhiteHouse/petition. Here is background information from Andrew Webster at The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/24/3265491/white-house-we-the-people-open-source (shortlink: http://vrge.co/QBgO80 )
HiiL Publication: Towards Basic Justice Care for Everyone: Challenges and Promising Approaches 2012
People suffer from ‘local’ problems in their key relationships: in their family, at work, with neighbours, about land and housing or about the way their community is governed; even obtaining an ID may be hard. This can have a serious impact on their livelihood and personal security. If best practices in law and justice from across the world would be widely applied, at least 75% of such problems could be solved in a satisfactory way (at the moment many places do not reach 50%). This is the main message of HiiL report on worldwide trends in providing access to justice: Towards Basic Justice Care for Everyone: Challenges and Innovative Approaches, released beginning of April 2012.
Download here: Strategies Towards Basic Justice Care
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