06067oam 22008294a 450 991041832900332120230621142712.01-5292-1130-110.56687/9781529211306(CKB)4100000011479191(OCoLC)1227882843(MdBmJHUP)muse95067(DE-B1597)645558(DE-B1597)9781529211306(MiAaPQ)EBC6356361(Au-PeEL)EBL6356361(OCoLC)1197868728(EXLCZ)99410000001147919120201203d2020 uy 0engurm|#||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierParticipation in Courts and TribunalsConcepts, Realities and Aspirations1st ed.BristolBristol University Press2020©20201 online resource (198 pages) illustrations, charts; digital file(s)Bristol shorts researchCourt reform, the COVID-19 pandemic and court user participation.Description based upon print version of record.1-5292-1146-8 1-5292-1129-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- List of Boxes, Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Policy and Practice Supporting Lay Participation -- Conceptualising Participation: Practitioner Accounts -- Observed Realities of Participation -- Looking Ahead: Towards a Principled Approach to Supporting Participation -- IndexThis significant study reveals how participation is supported in the courts and tribunals of England and Wales. Including reflections on changes to the justice system as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, it details the socio-structural, environmental, procedural, cultural and personal factors which constrain it.Assisting litigants-in-person -- Humanising and sympathetic responses -- Translation and disconnection -- Complexity -- Silencing of court users -- Underlining the disparities -- Disconnection -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- FIVE Looking Ahead -- Introduction -- International review -- Methodology for the literature search -- Witness intermediaries -- Ground rules hearings -- Court 'facility dogs' -- Pre-recording witness testimony in full -- Specialist hearing suites -- Specialist judicial guidance -- Reflections on innovative support for participation.Participation provides (potential) therapeutic benefits -- Barriers to and facilitators of participation -- Remote court attendance -- Practitioners as facilitators -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- FOUR Observed Realities of Participation -- Introduction -- Observing court proceedings -- Institutional parameters of participation -- Observed commonalities: stories of conflict, loss and disadvantage -- Conflict -- Loss and disadvantage -- Telling the stories of conflict, loss and disadvantage -- Supporting and facilitating participation -- Responsiveness to vulnerabilities and need.Interviews with practitioners: rationale and methodological approach -- What is participation? -- Participation entails: providing and eliciting information -- Participation entails: being informed -- Participation entails: being represented -- Participation entails: being protected -- Participation entails: being managed -- Participation entails: being present -- Why does participation matter? -- Participation is the exercise of legal rights -- Participation enables decision making -- Participation legitimates the judicial process and outcomes.Evolution of special measures -- In the criminal courts -- Evaluating special measures in the criminal courts -- In the Family Court -- In the Employment Tribunal -- In the Immigration and Asylum Chamber -- Guidance for practitioners and judges -- Equality of arms -- Impacts of legal aid reforms -- Court users' experiences of self-representing -- Court reform programme and access to justice -- Remote court attendance -- Online forms and processes -- Court closures -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- THREE Conceptualising Participation -- Introduction.Front Cover -- Participation in Courts and Tribunals: Concepts, Realities and Aspiration -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Boxes, Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- ONE Introduction -- Key messages of this volume -- Investigating participation -- Study parameters -- 'Vulnerability' and 'participation' -- 'Participation' in law and legal procedure -- The study -- Notes -- References -- TWO Policy and Practice Supporting Lay Participation -- Approach -- Vulnerability -- Vulnerability in law -- Vulnerability among court users.Bristol shorts research.Trial practicefast(OCoLC)fst01156264Criminal procedurefast(OCoLC)fst00883421Criminal courtsfast(OCoLC)fst00883184Criminal courtsWalesCriminal courtsEnglandTrial practiceWalesTrial practiceEnglandCriminal procedureWalesCriminal procedureEnglandWalesfastEnglandfastTrial practice.Criminal procedure.Criminal courts.Criminal courtsCriminal courtsTrial practiceTrial practiceCriminal procedureCriminal procedure345.4205Jacobson Jessicaaut1024958Cooper PennyothMdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910418329003321Participation in Courts and Tribunals2436489UNINA