By Louis Dejeu-Castang “The introduction of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) together with local authority funding cuts has created an adverse environment which has resulted in half of the law centres or agencies offering free legal advice being closed”[1]. This striking statistic highlights the severity of the crisis facing…
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The Threat of Technology to Access to Justice
By Abe Chauhan This essay was awarded third place in UCL CAJ SPBC writing competition to answer the question: “Technology is a useful tool for furthering access to justice”. Many are heralding a new era of ‘posthuman governance’[1] in which complex social issues are ‘deconstructed into neatly defined, structured and well-scoped problems that can be solved algorithmically’.[2]…