Access to justice (ATJ)

Introduction

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in this topic talk about Access to justice .Access to justice initiatives and programs are designed to provide legal services to populations that may otherwise have difficulty obtaining legal advice and representation. Without access to justice, people are not able to fully exercise their rights, challenge discrimination, or hold decision-makers accountable for their actions . The manner in which nations help their citizens gain access to justice vary by nation. Access to justice is a basic principle of the rule of law. It’s gonna legal aid and legal Treatment . Access to justice is defined as the ability of people to seek and obtain a remedy through formal or informal institutions of justice for grievances in compliance with human rights standards .Access to justice involves normative legal protection, legal awareness, legal aid and counsel, adjudication, enforcement, and civil society oversight.

In societies emerging from conflict, large segments of the population may not have had access justice. Access to justice ( ATJ ) guided by three principles .

• Promoting Accessibility — eliminating barriers that prevent people from understanding and exercising their rights.
• Ensuring Fairness — delivering fair and just outcomes for all parties, including those facing financial and other disadvantages.
• Increasing Efficiency — delivering fair and just outcomes effectively, without waste or duplication.

To translate these principles into action, Access to justice (ATJ) pursues strategies to leverage and better allocate justice resources, and works to:

• Advance new statutory, policy, and practice changes that support development of quality indigent defense and civil legal aid delivery systems at the state and federal level;
• Promote less lawyer-intensive and court-intensive solutions to legal problems; and
• Expand research on innovative strategies to close the gap between the need for, and the availability of, quality legal assistance.

Every man, woman and child deserves their human rights. Most Nepali People support formal human rights, but for a number of reasons, these rights are not always awarded to the people. One main reason can be that there is no access to justice. Access to justice is extremely important because if laws aren’t implemented, people won’t have their rights. If justice isn’t accessible there will be injustice. This has a negative impact on individuals and wider effects on society as a whole.

Inquiry into access to justice with particular reference to :-

• The ability of people to access legal representation;
• the cost of delivering justice;
• the adequacy of legal aid; (c) the cost of delivering justice; 
• alternative means of delivering justice;
• the ability of Indigenous people to access justice;
• the adequacy of funding and resource arrangements for community legal centres;
• it enables democracy to function;

Conclusion

Access to justice is more than improving an individual’s access to courts or guaranteeing legal representation. Access to justice is defined as the ability of people to seek and obtain a remedy through formal or informal institutions of justice for grievances in compliance with human rights standards.Access to justice initiatives and programs are designed to provide legal services to populations that may otherwise have difficulty obtaining legal advice and representation.The rule of law and human rights of all people are core tenet of our modern democracy and having access to justice, is an important part of protecting those rights.

However, the justice system doesn’t always work well for everyone and sometimes people can’t get access to justice. Some community sections are much more vulnerable than others.