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The Role of Lawyers in Access to Justice: Asian and Comparative Perspectives

Year of Publication: 2022
Month of Publication: 9
Editor(s): Helena M Whalen-Bridge
Research Area(s): Comparative Law, Human Rights
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Abstract:

To a disturbing degree, we are at the mercy of our time and place. While law may provide relief for some of life's troubles, that requires access to justice. Accessibility is the focus of this volume, which expands analysis of access to justice beyond the US and the UK to Asia and other comparative jurisdictions. Chapters characterise access to justice dynamics in these jurisdictions by addressing how access is understood, how it is achieved or not achieved, and how the jurisdiction should improve. The book addresses some issues seldom addressed in analyses of western jurisdictions, such as paid mandatory legal services and mandatory public interest activities, and provides English translations of relevant regulations. The book expands our understanding of access to justice with a comparative perspective, one that allows readers to identify relationships between access and its constitutive environment

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