Asserting legal rights and responsibilities.
Our support for community projects focused on access to justice recognises that the disadvantaged often have unequal access to justice, which undermines the possibility of their achieving equality in society. This can be because justice institutions are remote, slow and unaffordable, or because their processes are intimidating and complex. Other barriers to justice occur when disadvantaged groups are not aware of their rights.
Our access to justice activity aims to increase disadvantaged populations’ control over their lives and thereby alleviate poverty, deprivation and exclusion. It involves not only giving them, and the organisations that support them, free legal advice and representation, but also empowering them with the skills, knowledge and awareness necessary to access justice institutions and legal services.
