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Advocating access to justice: Facilitating or gatekeeping?
Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2023 Advocacy is one of the central means for supporting access to justice. The social work profession has advocacy as one of its main courses of action. This discusses the components in actions that are considered as good practice for facilitating access to
Kerstin Svensson
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Current Issues in Access to Justice: An Introduction to Global and Regional Perspectives
Access to Justice in Eastern EuropeThe third issue of Access to Justice in Eastern Europe (AJEE) presents a comprehensive collection of scholarly articles, review articles, and case studies examining critical issues in modern procedural law and judiciary.
I. Izarova
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Entre o social e o político : a luta pela definição do modelo de acesso à justiça em São Paulo
Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2009 This article explores the possible combi-nations for the political configuration of access to justice in contemporary societies. Taking as its starting point the mutations in the socio-political significance of this form of access within the modern state,
Élida Lauris
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Decent Pay and Access to Justice for Labour Migrants in the EAEU: Comparative Legal Perspectives
Access to Justice in Eastern EuropeBackground: Labour migration remains a key driver of socio-economic development in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), yet ensuring decent wages and access to justice for migrant workers is an under-addressed challenge.
Madina Yessirkepova +3 more
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The Texaco-Chevron case in Ecuador: Law and justice in the age of globalization
Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental, 2014 This is the story of an unequal legal battle. It's one that the communities affected by the operations of Texaco in Lago Agrio, Ecuador, have been holding for more than twenty years, to get compensation for damages to the environment, people's health and
Antoni Pigrau
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“Weaponizing” The Tort of Family Violence? Myths, Stereotypes, Lawyers’ Ethics and Access to Justice
Windsor Yearbook of Access to JusticeIntimate partner violence [IPV] causes myriad and gendered harms, but Canadian law has inconsistently provided avenues of economic redress. Although tort law has evolved to allow IPV survivors to seek compensation, tort-based remedies are sought rarely ...
Deanne Sowter, Jennifer Koshan
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Access to Justice in Eastern Europe, 2022 The recodification of criminal law realised in the Slovak Republic in 2005 brought several new elements to criminal proceedings. One of them was the expansion and significant strengthening of the discretion of the public prosecutor in criminal ...
Bystrík Šramel, L. Klimek
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Gender, Law Enforcement, and Access to Justice: Evidence from All-Women Police Stations in India
American Political Science Review, 2020 Can gender-based “enclaves” facilitate women’s access to justice? I examine all-female police stations in India and test whether group-specific institutions assist victims of gender-based violence and female officers in law enforcement.
Nirvikar Jassal
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Promoting Environmental Justice through Civil-Based Instruments in South Africa [PDF]
Law, Environment and Development Journal, 2017 Achieving environmental justice in South Africa is critically important, not only because of historical reasons rooted in the country’s apartheid past, but also to ensure that everyone in the country, especially marginalized and vulnerable sectors of ...
Michelle Toxopeüs and Louis J. Kotzé
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Access to justice for people with disabilities in employment
Jurnal Hukum Volkgeist, 2019 Access to Justice for people with disabilities is a term used to describe the legal protection given to persons with disabilities in their efforts to meet their needs from things that can endanger persons with disabilities themselves.The right to obtain
Imam Wicaksono
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