Reaching Equal Justice: An Invitation to Envision and Act (Report of the Canadian Bar Association’s Access to Justice Committee, August 2013)
The year is 2030 and all people living in Canada have equal access to justice regardless of means, capacity or social situation. The justice system takes into consideration individuals’ and...
Extraterritorial Jurisdiction under the ECHR – Smith (and Others) v MOD (2013)
In Smith (and Others) v MOD [2013] UKSC 41, the UK Supreme Court was charged with determining whether the UK government had jurisdiction over British soldiers killed while serving in...
Legal Aid Cuts are Incongruous and Reckless for a Conservative Government
This is an edited transcript of the address given by Dinah Rose QC on Tuesday 4 June 2013, at the Demonstration to Save Justice outside of the Ministry of Justice....
The Beating Heart of the Rule of Law (and Not an Avocado)
This is an edited transcript of the address given by Michael Fordham QC, on Tuesday 4 July 2013, at the Demonstration to Save Justice outside of the Ministry of Justice....
Civil Legal Aid Reforms in the UK – What will this mean for you?
This is a government which does not like its decisions being challenged, examined or questioned. This is a government which likes being able to use its power in whichever way...
Legal Aid Cuts: A Student Perspective
By Meghan Campbell and Arthur Chan Oxford Legal Assistance (OLA) is an undergraduate and postgraduate legal aid scheme, run out of the University of Oxford and is partnered with Turpin...
It’s Time to Wake Up – UK Legal Aid Cuts
Like many law academics I suppose I had grown tired of well-heeled QCs claiming that this or that change to legal services spelt doom for their profession when what they...
It's Time to Wake Up – UK Legal Aid Cuts
Like many law academics I suppose I had grown tired of well-heeled QCs claiming that this or that change to legal services spelt doom for their profession when what they...
Justice and Security Act 2013: Impact on Open Justice and Trial Rights
On the 25th of April 2013, the Justice and Security Act was granted Royal Assent after the Bill’s tumultuous progression through the parliamentary drafting stages. Part 2 of the...
The Strasbourg Court, the ‘Exhaustion of Domestic Remedies’ Rule, and the Principle of Subsidiarity: Between a Rock and a Hard Place?
By Natasha Simonsen – The recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Er & Ors v Turkey illustrates the tension between the principle of the subsidiarity and...
Class actions for South Africa: Children’s Resource Centre Trust v Pioneer Food
Although the South African Constitution makes provision for class actions, the requirements for instituting a class action and the relevant procedures had not been authoritatively determined, until a landmark judgment...
Access to Justice for Self-Represented Litigants?
Robin Knowles CBE QC and Natasha Holcroft-Emmess add to the voices on the OxHRH Blog warning of the threat to justice posed by impending budget cuts, particularly to self-represented litigants....
