Access to Justice in Rural Communities

Global Perspectives

Daniel Newman, Faith Gordon, Daniel Newman, Faith Gordon

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781509951642
• eBook ISBN: 9781509951659
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Comparative Law
• Index: Law

This book offers insight on access to justice from rural areas in internationally comparable contexts to highlight the diversity of experiences within, and across rural areas globally. It looks at the fundamental questions for people's lives raised by the issue of access to justice as well as the rule of law. It highlights a range of social, geographic and cultural issues which impact the way rural communities experience the justice system throughout the world with chapters on Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, Kenya, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Syria, Turkey, the USA and Wales. Each chapter explores three questions:
1. How do people experience the institutions of justice in rural areas and how does this rural experience differ to an urban experience?
2. What impact have changes in policy had on the justice system in rural areas, and have rural and urban areas been affected in different ways?
3. What impact does the law have on people's lives in rural areas and what would rural communities like to be better understood about their experience of the justice system? By bringing in the voices and experiences of those who are often ignored or side-lined by justice systems, this book will set out an agenda for ensuring social justice in legal systems with a focus on protecting marginalised groups.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• 1. Rural Access to Justice
• 2. A Survey of Policy Responses to the Rural Attorney Shortage in the United States
• 3. Alcohol Laws, Rural Communities and Access to Justice in Kenya
• 4. Accessibility to Justice for Rural Livestock Farmers in Selected Provinces of South Africa: Rural Communities and the Justice System
• 5. Why Doesn’t a Mother Whose Son was Murdered Seek Justice? A Critical Approach to the Relationship between Socio-Cultural Structure and Access to Justice in Rural Communities by Reconstructing the Sabahattin Ali’s Kağnı (The Oxcart) Short Story
• 6. Rethinking Access to Justice for Indigenous Peoples
• 7. Barriers to Access to Justice for Members of the Traveller Community: Rediscrimination within the Equality System
• 8. Older Victims, Legal Need and Access to Justice in Rural Communities in Northern Ireland
• 9. Litigants in Person and Rural Family Justice in England and Wales
• 10. Overcoming Geographic Barriers: Towards a Framework for Facilitating Legal Service Delivery in Rural Communities in Canada
• 11. Conceptualising Rural Access to Justice as Supply Chains Primed for Transformation
• 12. ‘Restorative What?’ Young People’s Experiences of Accessing Justice in Rural Syria
• 13. A Retrospective on Rural Legal Service Provision: Lessons Emerging from International Research
• 14. Access to Rural Justice: Domestic Violence in Rural America
• 15. Rural Access to Justice and Beyond: Dimensions of Access as a Criterion for Understanding Lay Users’ Satisfaction with Remote Justice
• Afterword
• Index
• Copyright Page