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Access to Justice and Technology Ronald W. Staudt

Access to Justice and Technology Ronald W. Staudt. Class 6: The setting: Courts and Agencies October 7, 2004. Today.

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Access to Justice and Technology Ronald W. Staudt

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  1. Access to Justice and TechnologyRonald W. Staudt Class 6: The setting: Courts and Agencies October 7, 2004

  2. Today • John M. Greacen, Self Represented Litigants and Court and Legal Services Responses to Their Needs:  What We Know, (2nd draft, July 20, 2002). http://www.lri.lsc.gov/abstracts/020045/020045_selfrep_litigants&whatweknow.pdf • Reports of your visits to Cook County Advice Desk; Pro Se Court; Landlord Tenant Call in the Daley Center, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

  3. The setting: Graecen • Studies showing the number of self represented litigants. • By State • Phoenix • Florida • Others • Cook County Divorces • By type of case • Criminal v. Civil • Limited v. General Jurisdiction • Family Law • By Demographics • Income • Age • Race

  4. The setting: Graecen • Studies showing impact of self representation on court process and outcome • Length of trial or other proceedings • Outcome • Other demands of justice system

  5. The setting: Graecen • Court/Legal Services programs & advice/information issue • 13 questions about effectiveness from both client and court perspective • Service, satisfaction, education, expectations, actions, outcomes • Cost effective wrt other options • Just outcomes

  6. The Setting • Advice desk & Self Help Web Desk • Cook County Forcible Call • Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights • Pro Se Court

  7. LSC Act of 1974:Five Fundamental Objectives • continuing the "present vital legal services program"; • ensuring "equal access" to our system of justice "for individuals who seek a redress of grievances"; • providing "high quality legal assistance to those who would be otherwise unable to afford adequate legal counsel"; • keeping the legal services program "free from the influence of or use by it of political pressures," • assuring that "attorneys providing legal assistance ... have full freedom to protect the best   interests of their clients in keeping with the [ethics codes] ... and the high standards of the legal profession."

  8. Access to Justice book www.judgelink.org/a2j Charter: http://www.judgelink.org/a2j/system_design/charter.cfm

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