scholarly journals Lay litigants' access to legal information in libraries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Angela Ann Blake
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Open Government ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
The Public ◽  
Online Access

<p>This study examines the availability and accessibility of legal information for lay litigants - those people who have chosen to represent themselves in legal proceedings. It looks specifically at the information held in libraries and whether these libraries and the information held in them can be accessed by lay litigants. Although this study looks at the ability of lay litigants to access legal information, it also discusses legal information access by the public in general. Distinctions have however been drawn between those seeking general legal information and lay litigants The overall purpose of this research is to establish the current levels of access to information that lay litigants have, and whether the current situation is adequate and tenable. Principles and policies such as that of equal access to the law and the New Zealand government's commitment towards open government; enabling online access and its e-policy have been taken into consideration in evaluating whether the current situation is sufficient. Distinctions have also been drawn between those seeking general legal information and lay litigants.</p>

scholarly journals Lay litigants' access to legal information in libraries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Angela Ann Blake
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Open Government ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
The Public ◽  
Online Access

<p>This study examines the availability and accessibility of legal information for lay litigants - those people who have chosen to represent themselves in legal proceedings. It looks specifically at the information held in libraries and whether these libraries and the information held in them can be accessed by lay litigants. Although this study looks at the ability of lay litigants to access legal information, it also discusses legal information access by the public in general. Distinctions have however been drawn between those seeking general legal information and lay litigants The overall purpose of this research is to establish the current levels of access to information that lay litigants have, and whether the current situation is adequate and tenable. Principles and policies such as that of equal access to the law and the New Zealand government's commitment towards open government; enabling online access and its e-policy have been taken into consideration in evaluating whether the current situation is sufficient. Distinctions have also been drawn between those seeking general legal information and lay litigants.</p>

scholarly journals Evidence based medicine? Access to information & medicines regulation in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Amy Hill
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Regulatory Regime ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Medicines Regulation ◽  
Based Medicine

<p>This paper explores one very important issue in the regulatory regime for medicines in New Zealand and around the world- the deficit of information about medicines available to doctors, patients and independent researchers. Much of the information about safety, efficacy and quality of drugs is held and controlled by pharmaceutical companies and regulators. The public is entitled to this information in full.</p>

Institutions of Information Access and Constraint

2012 ◽  
pp. 247-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannine E. Relly
Keyword(s):  
Information Asymmetry ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Government Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
China And India ◽  
History Of

This chapter examines institutions of information access and the potential for information asymmetry in China and India, both of which have recently adopted access-to-information regulations and legislation, respectively. An examination of these two countries largely is a study of most-different cases. The chapter uses the framework of institutionalism to follow the history of government information policy in both nations and to examine measurements of the political, cultural, and economic environments in which access-to-information legislation is adopted, implemented, enforced, and used by the public.

The Information Access Law as a Full Constitutional Citizenship Instrument

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Marcilio Barenco Correa de Mello
Keyword(s):  
Information Access ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Nature ◽  
Public Manager ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right Of Access

This chapter addresses the right of access to information, reinforced as a fundamental rule for citizens in the Brazilian constitutional norm of 1988, now regulated, more closely, from the enactment of the law on access to information in 2011. It represents an important legislative instrument of reinforcement of the principle of publicity, as well as the main infraconstitutional standard guaranteeing access to information. The requirement of a clear and transparent accountability environment by the public manager is a republican assumption of massive participation by society. This is because the right of access to information of a public nature provides a better control of public expenditures, while allowing, on the other hand, promotion of social control of a diffuse nature. It should be pointed out that, with greater knowledge of their own rights, the citizen goes through a faster inclusion process, either in the subjectivation of a minimal role of rights that he does not know, or in the clarification of his duties as a participant in the process of state maintenance.

The Information Access Law as a Full Constitutional Citizenship Instrument

2022 ◽  
pp. 166-179
Author(s):  
Marcilio Barenco Correa de Mello
Keyword(s):  
Information Access ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Nature ◽  
Public Manager ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right Of Access

This chapter addresses the right of access to information, reinforced as a fundamental rule for citizens in the Brazilian constitutional norm of 1988, now regulated, more closely, from the enactment of the law on access to information in 2011. It represents an important legislative instrument of reinforcement of the principle of publicity, as well as the main infraconstitutional standard guaranteeing access to information. The requirement of a clear and transparent accountability environment by the public manager is a republican assumption of massive participation by society. This is because the right of access to information of a public nature provides a better control of public expenditures, while allowing, on the other hand, promotion of social control of a diffuse nature. It should be pointed out that, with greater knowledge of their own rights, the citizen goes through a faster inclusion process, either in the subjectivation of a minimal role of rights that he does not know, or in the clarification of his duties as a participant in the process of state maintenance.

scholarly journals Public Access to Primary Legal Information in China: Challenges and Opportunities

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaomeng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Open Government ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Public ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Chinese Official ◽  
The Government

AbstractDespite a lack of a national legislation that mandates open government information in the People's Republic of China, each major government branch has taken proactive efforts to make primary legal information issued within their power available to the public. A close examination of Chinese official legal information portals on the national level reveal issues such as a lack of uniformity and a lack of access to authenticated primary legal information. This article, by Xiaomeng Zhang1, proposes a solution that would not only offer more consistent guidelines for the government but would empower the public to assert their right to primary legal information more powerfully and effectively.

scholarly journals The use of online legal information access and retrieval devices in the e-library of the Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 30-40
Author(s):  
Juliana Nwakaego Agwunobi ◽  
Pius Tom Umoren
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Research Instrument ◽  
Bona Fide ◽  
Online Access ◽  
Law Library ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

This study examined the availability of online legal information access and retrieval devices and their utilization in the e-library of the Faculty of Law, University of Calabar. To aid the study, the faculty of law students constituted the population of study. Of this 433 students formed the sample of the study being the bona fide law library registered students who completed and returned the questionnaire.The research instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire. The instrument was designed to elicitinformation on the availability of fifteen online legal information and access devices in the e-library library and the extent of their utilization in accessing and retrieving legal information in the library. Findings reveal that although the e-library library had a number of the sampled online access and retrieval devices there were disparities in their usages by the students. The disparity in the utilization of these devices stemmed from the fact that some were heavily utilized than others, while some were non-existence. The study further showed that but for the manifest problems that affected the usages of the devices, the level of patronage implied that the e-library seems to be the in-thing in contemporary information search and access for possible utilization to meet desired goals.

scholarly journals Evidence based medicine? Access to information & medicines regulation in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Amy Hill
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Regulatory Regime ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Medicines Regulation ◽  
Based Medicine

<p>This paper explores one very important issue in the regulatory regime for medicines in New Zealand and around the world- the deficit of information about medicines available to doctors, patients and independent researchers. Much of the information about safety, efficacy and quality of drugs is held and controlled by pharmaceutical companies and regulators. The public is entitled to this information in full.</p>

scholarly journals Value for money from public services under continually constrained budgets: a strategic approach

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Len Cook ◽  
Robert Hughes
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Value For Money ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
The Government ◽  
Economic Outlook

The New Zealand economy in the early months of 2009 faces challenges of historicmagnitude. The size of the public sector in the New Zealand economy makes it arguably the most important single player to manage the current situation. We can expect Keynesian policies designed to stimulate spending by consumers and businesses to be important. The poor economic outlook and policies to stimulate the economy mean that the government is faced with severe constraints on budgets and strong pressures to achieve high value for the money  expended on public services.

Local Lost Ground to Distant News

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin G. Barnhurst
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
Online Access

This chapter considers the claim that that news from outside the United States has been declining. For over a century, prominent figures have been describing the citizenry as ill informed, especially about geography, and not merely inattentive but lazy or too stubborn to change. Former Sunday New York Times Editor Lester Markel, after a year of studying what he called the global challenge to the United States in the mid 1970s, concluded that “the public has scant information” and “makes little effort to understand.” After leading panel discussions with press, academic, and government experts and conducting interviews and surveys, he reported that prominent figures ranging from pollster George Gallup to Times editor C. L. Sulzberger were in consensus: people knew little about distant places. Not much has changed in the ensuing years. And as online access to information grew, the Columbia Journalism Review noted that “the American public is no better informed.”

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