Access to Justice

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Law

Initiatives

Free Legal Answers: Pro bono Q&A by email (ABA)
DC Affordable Law Firm: Joint project of DLA Piper (and co.) and Georgetown Law
Illinois Justice Corps: Volunteers placed in courthouses to help SRLs
Morris Justice: Participatory and critical access to justice research project
Text message reminders (nudges) reduce failure to appear by 13-21%
Wallumatta Legal

Economic impacts of access to justice

CCPA report on the economics of legal aid
Economic impact of right to counsel in Baltimore evictions
CFCJ's Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada
Charging for Justice: A HiiL report on funding justice initiatives
Expungement of Criminal Convictions: Empirical study of the effects of expungement on wage and employment trajectories

Proposed reforms

Promising approaches to providing financially sustainable access to justice
Ken Chasse proposes a shared services model based on work at Legal Aid Ontario
Fees for registry searches etc are insane in BC and the services have nonsensical limitations (e.g. limited hours even for online requests)

Court funding

Courts generally complain a lot about being underfunded, but increased budgets for courts are not correlated with greater output