SOME INFORMATIONAL RESOURCES ON THE WEB
To promote access to justice professionals, clients and the public ought to become more knowledgeable about the laws and legal processes. Legal education for professionals and clients can be facilitated through distance education. If professionals have incomplete legal knowledge they may feel inadequate to support clients. Professionals can provide informational resources to assist clients to realize their nominal rights for access and equity in our law related systems. In particular, if practitioners who are geographically and temporally isolated are able to access legal education, they may become more professionally competent to intervene in crisis related situations.
Legal education is of instrumental value in developing access to justice for citizens of the world. Professionals and clients need to be supported to become aware of the laws and legal processes. The value of support such as counselling, conflict resolution and supervision to prevent and to reduce crime, relapse and/or re-offending should not be underestimated by the not-for - profit, government and corporate sectors. Virtual support systems can help to establish equality of access and outcome in legal education.
The following informational resources weave together key themes related to law, education and training, counselling, mediation and supervision. These are pivotal components in virtual tutoring and student support systems associated with legal education.
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