The Effects of COVID-19 on Access to Justice: A four part series by Claire Donse at DLA Piper for PILnet
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, courts and justice actors are mobilizing to prevent a twin pandemic, in which a public health crisis is coupled with an access to justice crisis. As the coronavirus continues to extend its reach, governments around the world are introducing extraordinary measures in the name of public health and safety. Courts, law firms, legal clinics and legal service providers around the world are closing their physical doors, and are opening up for business online. We are seeing an unprecedented acceleration in the adoption of ‘remote’ or ‘online’ legal services.
This four part series, released weekly, has been written to share early perspectives on the use of technology to support access to justice from countries that are adapting to the impact of the coronavirus, and to consider the potential impacts of this technology on access to justice in the future.