Browsing PER: Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal by Subject "Access to justice"
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Barriers to advocacy and litigation in the equality courts for persons with disabilities
(2014)The effective implementation of the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act 4 of 2000 (PEPUDA) and the fulfilment of the South African state's obligations in terms of the Convention on the Rights ... -
The Dutch crisis and Recovery Act: Economic recovery and legal crisis?
(North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Faculty of Law, 2010)In the Netherlands, the 2010 Crisis and Recovery Act aims at speeding up decisionmaking on a wide variety of activities, hoping that after the financial and economic crisis has passed, development projects can immediately ... -
Formal regulation of third party litigation funding agreements? A South African perspective
(PER/PELJ, 2018)In South Africa third party litigation funding agreement as a tool that provides access to justice is not legislated with regard to non-lawyers. This article is based on research conducted to determine whether regulating ... -
Improving access to justice through compulsory student work at university law clinics
(2013)In this paper an analysis is offered of compulsory so-called "live client" clinical legal education as part of the LLB as a means of improving access to justice for the indigent. This study first explores the factors which ... -
Municipal courts and environmental justice in South African Local Government
(PER/PELJ, 2021)South African law establishes environmental justice (EJ) as among the environmental management principles to direct decision-making. EJ's inclusion as a guiding principle in the National Environmental Management Act 107 ... -
Promoting Access to Justice through the Broadcasting of Legal Proceedings
(PER/PELJ, 2022)This article considers a lack of legal literacy as a barrier to access to justice. The article then considers the potential effectiveness of introducing media-based teaching tools to South African society in an attempt ... -
Recent developments in the provision of pro bono legal services by attorneys in South Africa
(2013)This paper focuses on legal service delivery for the indigent by attorneys in private practice acting pro bono in civil rather than criminal matters. In this regard there have been and continue to be considerable gaps ... -
Reforming the South African social security adjudication system: innovative experiences from South African non-social security jurisdictions
(2016)There is currently no uniform social security dispute resolution system in South Africa due to the piecemeal fashion in which schemes were established or protection against individual risks regulated. The result is that ...
