This is the second volume of this kind. The first, 'Addressing Vulnerability in Justice Systems', focussed on identifying vulnerability in international justice systems. This volume presents some of the challenges that exist in achieving sufficient access to justice for vulnerable people, primarily in criminal and family proceedings and provides international comparisons of best practice.
This book, following on from The Advocate's Gateway Conference in 2017, consists of a selection of papers from presentations at the conference. The primary focus is an international comparison of vulnerability in justice systems and issues surrounding access to justice for vulnerable witnesses and parties. The book presents the latest developments in a constantly developing area of law and provides details of the many different challenges which advocates, judges and vulnerable witnesses and victims encounter in justice systems. It also offers international comparisons of best practice.
The discussions in 'Access to Justice for Vulnerable People' will provide academics and practitioners across a variety of disciplines an insight in to topics of central importance to the fairness and efficiency of court processes. Expert contributors offer an international perspective and research-informed practical advice for lawyers, researchers, judges and policy makers.
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Lawyers and academics with an interest in litigation and justice.
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-85490-267-5 (9780854902675)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Penny practices as a barrister at 39 Essex Chambers advising on effective participation of witnesses in a wide range of serious, complex and high value cases. Her research is widely published and cited; she has written judicially endorsed guidance for advocates and witness intermediaries. Penny also leads grant-funded research at the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, University of London Linda Hunting is a visiting lecturer in criminology and law at the University of West London and University of Roehampton and has worked as a consultant developing materials for undergraduate courses.
Acknowledgements
Foreword -The Hon. Ms Justice Alison Russell
Contributors
Introduction -The Rt Hon. Lady Justice Dorrian, Lord Justice Clerk
1. 'Moving at a pace': Towards a new approach to vulnerability in courts and tribunals? -Professor Penny Cooper
2. Cartesian perfection: The route out of failure - The Rt Hon. Sir John Gillen
3. Bringing the court closer to the person with disability: Judicial exemption from the Equality Act and interference with reasonable adjustments for litigants with physical disabilities - Dr. Anton van Dellen
4. Judges and lawyers: Getting it wrong about the disabled for all these years - John Horan
5. Challenges in defining and identifying a suspect's vulnerability in criminal proceedings: What's in a name and who's to blame? - Lore Mergaerts, Prof. dr. Dirk Van Daele, Prof. dr. Geert Vervaeke
6. Caught by language: The language competence of young offendersand the implications for the (Dutch) youth justice system - Mr. Mw. K.G.M. van Dijk - Fleetwood-Bird
7. Justice denied? The experience of unrepresented defendants in the criminal courts - Penelope Gibbs
8. Anunga 40 years on - Rights remain limited for Indigenous suspects in the Northern Territory of Australia - Felicity Gerry QC and David Woodroffe
9. The effects of intersectionality: Women with learning disabilities, difficulties and autism in the criminal justice system - Dr. Hugh Asher
10. The importance of identifying vulnerable females and males with autism in the prison environment - Dr. Clare S. Allely, Dr. Toni Wood, & Christopher Gillberg
11. Confusion and communication in deaf cases: Towards a model of best practice - Dr. Sue O'Rourke, Chantelle de la Croix, Noel Traynor and Robert Grieve
12. Trauma and victim participation in the criminal process - Professor Louise Ellison and Professor Vanessa E Munro
13. The pre-trial Position of vulnerable victims of crime In Ireland - Dr. Alan Cusack
14. Balancing accessibility and authority: Towards an integrated approach to vulnerability in the criminal courts - Dr. Jessica Jacobson
15. Advocating PEACE: Will it make people cross? - Professor Ray Bull and Dr. Andy Griffiths
Postscript - Linda Hunting
