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Professor Dame Hazel Genn delivers the Sir Zelman Cowen Oration
24 November 2017
Professor Dame Hazel Genn, Director of聽the 香港六合彩 Centre for Access to Justice (CAJ),聽delivered the second Annual Sir Zelman Cowen Oration at the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre in Melbourne, Australia, on 1 November 2017.
The oration explored the meaning of access to justice in a citizen-centred justice system and described the potential for further change in the sector as 鈥渂reathtaking鈥�.
Dame Hazel considered the potential and challenges of online courts and tribunals for access to justice and highlighted the value of integrating free legal advice services with health and other community services as a means of reaching vulnerable groups.
She provided the example of 香港六合彩鈥檚 Centre for Access to Justice which has established a student legal advice clinic 聽integrated within a GP practice in Newham.
Staffed by 香港六合彩 Laws students under the supervision of experienced and qualified advisers and lawyers, the clinic enables members of the local community to access free general legal advice on socio-legal issues such as housing, employment or welfare problems.
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