25 Years of Clinical Legal Education at La Trobe Uni

Dickson, Judith

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“…19 The legal service is collocated with the Banyule Community Health Centre and this provided the opportunity to access a range of staff members and through them members of the community (see below for further discussion). 20 West Heidelberg is one of the most disadvantaged postcodes in Victoria, Australia.…”

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Access to justice: a new approach using human rights standards

Curran

Noone

2008

International Journal of the Legal Profession

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This article details a trial of a new approach to measuring access to justice that utilises human rights instruments as the reference point. It involves an examination of people's actual experience of the justice system using human rights standards as the benchmark. The research project selected the right to income security. The project trialled a range of methods gathering data about how people have been treated in the Australian social security system and how they would expect to be treated if there was a human right to social security in Australia. This data is assessed against the set of standards developed to measure the enjoyment of the right to social security. The trial suggests that without knowledge about human rights and legal rights, without the confidence to exercise those rights and without the capacity or capability to seek or find help it is unlikely that people will realise their rights and accordingly access to justice is placed in question. The research methodology has the potential to be a useful model to conduct further access to justice research.If we believe in human rights, we must work hard to define what they mean for people's daily lives. We must identify the real and concrete outcomes that represent the achievement of human rights in practice and make sure they are incorporated in government programs and policies, as well as ensuring that the broad principles and goals of human rights form part of national and local government targets, mission statement and evaluation. 1 We've just had a young guy living with us for a few days, a twenty year old bloke who is unemployed and is homeless . . . I don't think he would see that he's got a right to that so he wouldn't go in and yell and scream or argue or get somebody to advocate for him and there's probably a lot like that. They're not prepared or have the capacity to stand up to the system and make the system work or justify itself. That's very hard to do to. 2

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Access to justice: a new approach using human rights standards

Curran

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2008

International Journal of the Legal Profession

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“…24 However, this does not exhaust the themes with the Australian CLE literature. During the 1990s -reflecting social attitude change, the institutionalisation of CLE and 17 Parker and Goldsmith (1998), p 48;Dickson (2004b), p 26; Dickson (2004a), p 42; Kenny and Copeland (2000); see also and Styles and Zariski (2001); Curran (2004a). 18 The elements of a progressive practice of law, and the underlying political commitments that grounded Australian CLE are well expressed by Gabel and Harris (1982).…”

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The Different Side of Society

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2006

Griffith Law Review

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25 Years of Clinical Legal Education at La Trobe Uni

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Access to justice: a new approach using human rights standards

Access to justice: a new approach using human rights standards

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