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OECD White Paper on the Business Case for Access to Justice

In September 2015, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted, as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a goal referring to universal access to justice: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels (SDG 16). In seeking to implement SDG 16, governments, international institutions and civil society organisations are searching for innovative and efficient ways to increase access to justice in practice. Challenges abound, however, and most governments of the world struggle to increase, or sometimes even to maintain, resources allocated to the justice sector.

 

In 2019-2020, as part of its work on access to justice, the OECD mandated Reza to lead a team in preparing a White Paper on the Business Case for Access to Justice. The White paper seeks to build a business case for access to justice by (a) reviewing the state of knowledge about the effect of access to justice on people’s lives and on economic development and inclusive growth; (b) reviewing the evidence and providing new evidence on limitations in access to civil justice services and the costs that they impose on societies in OECD and non-OECD countries, in particular for lower-income groups and people suffering other disadvantages; (c) reviewing the evidence on the benefits of interventions improving access to justice, in particular when targeting these individuals and groups. As a key element of the business case, the White Paper develops an analysis of civil and administrative legal needs in a large number of countries, based in particular on cross-country survey data produced by the World Justice Project. The White Paper also provides a first estimate of the costs generated by legal problems in a large group of countries.

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