NSTletters Barriers such as cost, complexity and corruption cause people either not to seek redress, or to be defeated by the process.
But yet this objective has been achieved in few if any nation, and the consequences are damaging for social, economic and political progress.
The 53 countries of the Commonwealth are committed to taking action to right this wrong. Each member country is committed through our Commonwealth Charter to “an independent, Our priority has to be to answer the needs of all people, particularly the poor and unemployed, as well as victims of domestic violence whose experience far too often is to feel marginalised by judicial processes.
Even where equal and progressive laws exist, swingeing cuts to legal aid, or lack of legal aid altogether, can impair access to justice, particularly for the most vulnerable. Systems should ensure these avenues to resolution are available because, without them, anger and resentment can fester. This means that just as lawbreakers find ever more sophisticated ways of using technology for crime, lawmakers must leverage what technology can do to keep ahead or abreast of such threats.
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