Access to justice for people living in poverty 2012, para. 40
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- Document type
- Rapport des procédures spéciales
- Paragraph text
Persons living in poverty, particularly those with disabilities or older persons, may experience additional obstacles in accessing justice when courts and police stations are not appropriately designed, and when court processes are not adaptable. For example, many judicial systems are heavily reliant on paper forms and written submissions, and on the presentation of oral evidence. Often, police stations and courts are not wheelchair accessible. Where measures are not in place to enable judicial bodies to adapt their processes for those in need, including by providing aid to defendants, claimants, witnesses and jurors who require it, such persons are excluded from accessing and benefiting from the justice system.
- Document legal status
- Droit souple non-négocié
- Document body
- Procédures Spéciales: Rapporteur spécial sur l’extrême pauvreté et les droits de l’homme
- Document means of adoption
- S/O
- Thèmes
- Égalité & Inclusion
- Gouvernance & l'état de droit
- Pauvreté
- Personnes concernées
- Personnes âgées
- Personnes handicapées
- Document year
- 2012
- Type de paragraphe
- Autre
- Paragraph number
- 40
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