Self-Represented Litigation and Meaningful Access to Justice in Aotearoa and Samoa

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aut.relation.endpage22
aut.relation.issue1
aut.relation.journalAlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
aut.relation.startpage13
aut.relation.volume19
dc.contributor.authorFa’amatuainu, Bridget
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-30T22:43:50Z
dc.date.available2023-11-30T22:43:50Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-23
dc.description.abstractMore than a decade ago, the first exploratory study into the experiences of Self-Represented Litigants in Aotearoa (New Zealand) recommended the need for more cultural perspectives in this area of research. This article makes a timely contribution to building this knowledge base while identifying some of the gaps, attitudes, intersectional experiences and challenges faced by Pacific communities within their respective cross-cultural contexts in response to Aotearoa’s justice system. As a starting point, we explore the existing framework of self-represented litigation in Aotearoa as well as some of the key limitations to highlight how responsive it is to cultural and systemic issues of bias. This article further explicates key principles from a customary approach used in Samoa to demonstrate how it may help facilitate meaningful engagement across diasporic Pan-Pacific communities to further enhance cross-cultural litigation in the civil justice system of Aotearoa—a largely under-theorised area.
dc.identifier.citationAlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, ISSN: 1177-1801 (Print); 1174-1740 (Online), SAGE Publications, 19(1), 13-22. doi: 10.1177/11771801221145843
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/11771801221145843
dc.identifier.issn1177-1801
dc.identifier.issn1174-1740
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/17020
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSAGE Publications
dc.relation.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/11771801221145843
dc.rights© 2023 Sage Publications. Under Sage's Green Open Access policy, the Accepted Version of the article may be posted in the author's institutional repository and reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses.
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.subject47 Language, Communication and Culture
dc.subject4702 Cultural Studies
dc.subject16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
dc.subject2002 Cultural Studies
dc.subject4702 Cultural studies
dc.subjectaccess
dc.subjectcustom
dc.subjectjustice
dc.subjectlaw
dc.subjectSamoa
dc.subjectSelf-Represented Litigants (SRLs)
dc.titleSelf-Represented Litigation and Meaningful Access to Justice in Aotearoa and Samoa
dc.typeJournal Article
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