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.
Law may provide relief for some of life's troubles, but that requires access to justice. This book expands analysis of access to justice beyond the US and the UK, to Asia and other jurisdictions. It considers functioning systems of mandatory public interest activities and provides English translations of relevant regulation.
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Analyses access to justice in Asia and other non-Western jurisdictions, including programmes of mandatory public interest activities.
1. Introduction to understanding and comparing access to justice Helena
Whalen-Bridge; Part I. Access to Justice in Asia:
2. Pro bono, legal aid, and
the struggle for justice in China Hualing Fu;
3. Access to justice in India:
Managing multiple mechanisms in a restrictive practice environment Sarasu
Esther Thomas;
4. Access to justice in Indonesia: Searching for meaning
Yunita with Linda Yanti Sulistiawati;
5. Access to justice and lawyer
independence in Japan Hiroshi Otsuka and Setsuo Miyazawa;
6. Improving access
to justice in Malaysia: Introspection, purpose, and dynamism Seh Lih Long;
7.
Political lawyers and the legal occupation in Myanmar Alice Dawkins and Nick
Cheesman;
8. Alternative lawyering versus pro bono in the Philippines: From
challenging an authoritarian government to working with the state George
Radics and Alpha Pontanal;
9. Access to justice in Singapore: A government
and lawyer dynamic Helena Whalen-Bridge;
10. Public interest lawyering in
South Korea: Standing on the shoulders of giants Takgon Lee and Jaewon Kim;
11. A hub, a knot, and a powerhouse: The legal aid foundation and access to
justice in Taiwan Ching-Fang Hsu and Yong-Ching Tsai;
12. Lawyers and
democratic centralism in Vietnam Nguyen Hung Quang; Part II. Comparative
Perspectives on Access to Justice:
13. Access to justice and an islamic ethic
of justice Arif A. Jamal;
14. Lawyering in Indonesia's religious courts:
Legal aid, procedural justice, and pragmatism Euis Nurlaelawati;
15. Access
to justice and legal aid in the Syariah courts in Malaysia: A colourful but
threadbare patchwork system Kerstin Steiner;16. The Syariah court of
Singapore: Achieving a more formal access to justice Ahmad Nizam Abbas;
17.
Access to justice in Israel: Rights, legal aid and pro bono in a lawyer
dominant system Limor Zer-Gutman and Michal Ofer Tsfoni;
18. Vuk'uzenzele
Arise and Act: Lawyers and access to justice in South Africa Helen Kruuse.
Helena Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law. Her publications include the co-authored Litigants in Person: Principles and Practice in Civil and Family Matters in Singapore (2021), and The Conceptualisation of Pro Bono in Singapore (2014). Helena is an Expert with the UNODC's Education for Justice project and has been Faculty Advisor for the NUS Law Faculty's student Pro Bono Group since its inception in 2005.
