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• Title:Access to justice for vulnerable people / edited by Professor Penny Cooper and Linda Hunting.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Cooper, Penny, 1967- editor.
  Hunting, Linda, editor.
  
• Published/Created:London : Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing, 2018.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KD7876 .A33 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Witnesses--Services for--England.
  Witnesses--Services for--Wales.
  Criminal justice, Administration of--England.
  Criminal justice, Administration of--Wales.
  
• Description:xxvi, 261 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"This volume presents some of the challenges that exist in achieving sufficient access to justice for vulnerable people, primarily in criminal and family proceedings and provides international comparisons of best practice...The primary focus is an international comparison of vulnerability in justice systems and issues surrounding access to justice for vulnerable witnesses and parties. The book presents the latest developments in a constantly developing area of law and provides details of the many different challenges which suspects, defendants, vulnerable witnesses and victims encounter in justice systems. The authors make recommendations for specific changes to policy and practice."-- Publisher's website.
  
• Notes:"The Advocate's Gateway" -- cover.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:0854902678 hardback
  9780854902675 hardback
  
• Contents:Foreword / Alison Russell
  Introduction / The Rt. Hon. Lady Justice Dorrian
  'Moving at a pace' : towards a new approach to vulnerability in courts and tribunals? / Penny Cooper
  Cartesian perfection : the route out of failure / John Gillen
  Bringing the court closer to the person with disability : judicial exemption from the Equality Act and interference with reasonable adjustments for litigants with physical disabilities / Anton van Dellen
  Judges and lawyers : getting it wrong about the disabled for all these years? / John Horan
  Challenges in defining and identifying a suspect's vulnerability in criminal proceedings : what's in a name and who's to blame? / Lore Mergaerts, Dirk Van Daele, Geert Vervaeke
  Caught by language : the language competence of young offenders and the implications for the (Dutch) youth justice system / K.G.M. van Dijk-Fleetwood-Bird
  Justice denied? : the experience of unrepresented defendants in the criminal courts / Penelope Gibbs
  Anunga 40 years on : rights remain limited for indigenous suspects in the Northern Territory of Australia / Felicity Gerry and David Woodroffe
  The effects of intersectionality : women with learning disabilities, difficulties and autism in the criminal justice system / Clare S. Allely, Toni Wood, & Christopher Gillberg
  Confusion and communication in deaf cases : towards a model of best practice / Sue O'Rourke, Chantelle de la Croix, Noel Traynor and Robert Grieve
  Trauma and victim participation in the criminal process / Louise Ellison and Vanessa E Munro
  The pre-trial position of vulnerable victims of crime in Ireland / Alan Cusack
  Balancing accessibility and authority : towards an integrated approach to vulnerability in the criminal courts / Jessica Jacobson
  Advocating PEACE : will it make people cross? / Ray Bull and Andy Griffiths
  Postscript / Linda Hunting.