Research Director, Victorian Legal Services Board & Commissioner; Honorary Professor, Faculty of Laws, UCL; CStat and CSci; Cat Fancier; All tweets my own
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Nigel J Balmer retweeted
📣 Out now - Research Handbook on Civil Justice
🖊️ Edited by Anne Bloom, David Engel, and Richard Lorren Jolly
📜 Read first chapter free: elgaronline.com/view/book/97…
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Nigel J Balmer retweeted
Thank you. You guys basically raised me. Best wishes for everyone involved in whatever you do next.
What with twitter going evil, thought I might try @bluesky and turns out it's decent.
Would be good to get more Australian law/legal services/A2J presence over there. Looking at you first @LSBC_Victoria @CommunityLawVic @VicLawReform @VicLawFoundn @yourLIV @VicLegalAid
Do it!!
Launched Vol 3 of The Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS) this week - puls.victorialawfoundation.o…
Here's what it is all about
The PULS is a legal needs & a legal capability survey, and its big, involving speaking to over 6,000 people face-to-face in their own homes 🧵 1/6
There is an imperative to address capability asymmetries to better meet needs and ultimately, democratize justice. There are challenges for many including regulators, policy makers and all those engage with those facing problems. Its about tailoring to legal capability 5/6
Many thanks to my co-authors & all those who helped including (but not limited to) @VicLawFoundn, @LSBC_Victoria, @VicLegalAid & 6008 respondents who gave their time to share some of the most challenging episodes of their lives. I hope the work does their stories justice 6/6
Job Alert 🚨
ICYMI 4 amazing roles for skilled and passionate empirical legal researchers currently advertised at @LSBC_Victoria
careers.vic.gov.au/jobs/just…
Fabulous opportunity to work at a great org, with smart & principled people, while having a positive impact on the world!
Nigel J Balmer retweeted
Check out what we at the @a2jlab & @EmilyLagratta wrote in the @StateCourts Trends publication about our study of online courts relative to case processing outcomes and perceptions of fairness.
ncsc.org/__data/assets/pdf_f…
Let the litigant choose!
Super empirical legal research job alert!!
Research is up and running at @LSBC_Victoria & we are recruiting! 4 great research roles right here careers.vic.gov.au/jobs/just…
Want to do some rigorous research that has positive real world impact? Then this is for you! Get involved!
Nigel J Balmer retweeted
A new article in @DukeJudicature by Rhode's Lucy Ricca on #RegulatoryReform, evidence & innovation and access in legal services highlights 2 projects that create regulatory environments to enable evidence-based, people-centered services. Read it here: judicature.duke.edu/articles… #a2j
Tanina Rostain & James Teufel with framework for evaluating lay legal assistance programs - v interesting scholarship.law.georgetown.e…
Channels Ronald Fisher - "Rather than an exercise after-the-fact, evaluation needs to be built into the design of innovations". I surprisingly agree
Nigel J Balmer retweeted
What’s #housinginsecurity got to do with the legal sector? Hear from our Board CEO and Commissioner, #FionaMcLeay, at the launch of our #Advancinghousingjustice report and grant round. 🧵
@GerardBrody #auslaw
Very interesting report on Debt & Eviction by
@LisaLawSoton & @TraceyVarnava
financialfairness.org.uk/doc…
Some too familiar themes around inaccessible process, low trust/confidence, escalating problems & need to better reflect needs/capabilities through regulation/reform/design/data
Nigel J Balmer retweeted
This was a lot of fun. Excited to be finally showing off our work in this area. The tech isn’t new, but used well it can be a very cost effective way to improve the court user experience and increase access to justice. Interested in leaning more? Reach out!
Earlier, our NCSC experts at @NACMNET’s Midyear Conference spoke about ways to use guided online interviews to provide court users with customized services and resources.
ALT National Center for State Courts (NCSC) staff members Aubrie Souza, Zach Zarnow, and Andy Wirkus present at the National Association of Court Management's (NACM) Midyear Conference. Taken February 5, 2024.
Thanks Matthew!!
You may like the next bit too as we try to unpick the relationship between legal needs & legal capability. Not properly understanding action/outcome/needs is kind of why we embarked on the whole legal capability thing... Hopefully some answers hidden in the data?
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New research!
2nd vol of the Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS) launched yesterday at @VicLawFoundn's Legal Laneway Breakfast
puls.victorialawfoundation.o…
PULS is a hybrid legal needs/legal capability survey & Vol2 covers all the capability measurement we could fit in! 🧵1/6
Recognising differences in needs/capabilities & responding accordingly can inform form & intensity of service, communication, & whether/how complementary services are drawn upon.
It could help to reshape provision, optimise resources & ultimately help to democratise justice 5/6
Thanks to @VLF_Exec @VicLawFoundn @VicLegalAid @LSBC_Victoria @RoyMorganAus, my co-authors & 6k respondents. And o VIC AG @JaclynSymes for saying nice things about our research at the launch - good example of why VIC feels so progressive/exciting for A2J stats nerds like me! 6/6