SOSC 4370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hazel Genn, Justiciability, Paradigm Shift
20 Mar 2016
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State of the art in law and society. Legal problems in the everyday lives of canadians. There is a paradigm shift occurring in access to justice. Few problems resolved in the formal justice system: hot coffee litigation in the usa distortion - legal cases take on lives of their own (mcdonald coffee case). The body of legal problems research that has been carried out over the past 15 years has been a major influence in that paradigm shift. To do this for the largest number of people in the population and the widest range of problmes. Patterned after hazel genn, paths to justice: what people do and think about. Going to law, 1999: going door to door, asking people what problems they have in their every day loves took place in england. Origin of the u. k. research in the civil justice reform movement in the u. k. ; the.
