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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword -The Hon. Ms Justice Alison Russell Contributors Introduction -The Rt Hon. Lady Justice Dorrian, Lord Justice Clerk 1. ‘Moving at a pace’: Towards a new approach to vulnerability in courts and tribunals? -Professor Penny Cooper 2. Cartesian perfection: The route out of failure - The Rt Hon. Sir John Gillen 3. 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 - Dr. Anton van Dellen 4. Judges and lawyers: Getting it wrong about the disabled for all these years - John Horan 5. Challenges in defining and identifying a suspect’s vulnerability in criminal proceedings: What’s in a name and who’s to blame? - Lore Mergaerts, Prof. dr. Dirk Van Daele, Prof. dr. Geert Vervaeke 6. Caught by language: The language competence of young offendersand the implications for the (Dutch) youth justice system - Mr. Mw. K.G.M. van Dijk – Fleetwood-Bird 7. Justice denied? The experience of unrepresented defendants in the criminal courts - Penelope Gibbs 8. Anunga 40 years on – Rights remain limited for Indigenous suspects in the Northern Territory of Australia - Felicity Gerry QC and David Woodroffe 9. The effects of intersectionality: Women with learning disabilities, difficulties and autism in the criminal justice system - Dr. Hugh Asher 10. The importance of identifying vulnerable females and males with autism in the prison environment - Dr. Clare S. Allely, Dr. Toni Wood, & Christopher Gillberg 11. Confusion and communication in deaf cases: Towards a model of best practice - Dr. Sue O’Rourke, Chantelle de la Croix, Noel Traynor and Robert Grieve 12. Trauma and victim participation in the criminal process - Professor Louise Ellison and Professor Vanessa E Munro 13. The pre-trial Position of vulnerable victims of crime In Ireland - Dr. Alan Cusack 14. Balancing accessibility and authority: Towards an integrated approach to vulnerability in the criminal courts - Dr. Jessica Jacobson 15. Advocating PEACE: Will it make people cross? - Professor Ray Bull and Dr. Andy Griffiths Postscript - Linda Hunting
