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Let Justice be Done Though the Overheads Fall: How Online Courts Promote Access to Justice

Winner of Best in Category, Justis International Law and Technology Writing Competition 2020 for the Category of Access to Justice and Technology, by Armin Amirsolimani of University College London

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2020

Armin Amirsolimani
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Extract

English justice was once as accessible as the air we breathe. The early Anglo-Saxons settled disputes effortlessly by bundling claimants into lakes and adjudicating by virtue of whether God intervened to rescue them from sinking.

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Legal Information Management , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , June 2020 , pp. 101 - 103
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2020. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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