This flagship report presents the OECD work on Equal Access to Justice of the OECD Public Governance Directorate, under the direction of Marcos Bonturi. The work and report were led by Tatyana Teplova, Head, Gender, Justice and Inclusiveness, OECD Public Governance Directorate, co‑ordinated by Chloe Lelievre, Justice Policy Analyst, under the guidance of Martin Forst, Head of Division, Governance Reviews and Partnerships.
Major drafting contributions were received from Geoff Mulherin, Director, Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales (Chapters 2 and 3), Melina Buckley, Chairwoman, Access to Justice Committee, Canadian Bar Association (Chapters 4 and 5) and Tatyana Teplova (Chapter 2). This report was compiled and edited by Melina Buckley, under a framework developed by Chloe Lelievre and Tatyana Teplova, and with drafted input provided by Dana Ghandour and Martyna Wanat, OECD Public Governance Directorate.
The OECD mapping of country practices (prepared through desk research) was conducted by Marcus Burke, Maria Melstveit, Margaux Mery, Abbey Seckerson and Martyna Wanat. This publication also benefitted from background research, literature reviews and further input provided by Jean-Jacques Hible and Paul Frissard. Ayesha Amin and Myron Manns provided review and editing support.
This publication is the result of contributions from a wide range of sources and expertise. Special appreciation is due to participants of OECD Policy Roundtables on Equal Access to Justice convened in 2015, 2017 and 2018; participants of joint OECD-OSJI events held in 2015 and 2016; participants of a joint workshop with the Task Force on Justice of the Pathfinders of Just, Inclusive and Peaceful Societies in 2018 and members of advisory streams who provided valuable input and feedback. In particular, the OECD gratefully acknowledges generous comments and contributions from:
Canadian Bar Association (Melina Buckley)
Canadian Bureau for International Education (Larissa Bezo, Oksana Kikot)
Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (Ab Currie, Trevor Farrow)
Department of Justice, Canada (Janet McIntyre)
Department of Justice, United States (Allen Beck, Maha Jweied)
Department of National Planning, Colombia (Gabriel Cifuentes, Manuel Felipe Diaz Rangel)
European Commission (Per Ibold, Ines Hartwig)
Fordham University (David Udell)
Harvard Law School (Christopher Griffin)
HEC Paris; Menon Economics (Reza Lahidji)
HM Courts & Tribunals Service, United Kingdom (Rohan Grove, Liz Vourdas)
International Development Centre, Canada (Adrian Di Giovanni)
Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales (Geoff Mulherin)
Legal Services Corporation, United States (Glenn Rawdon)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands (Marianne Peters)
Ministry of Interior, Mexico (David Arellano Cuan, Raul Landgrave, Abril Reynoso)
Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Argentina (Gustavo Maurino)
Ministry of Justice, Egypt (Mostafa Farrag)
Ministry of Justice, France (Karine Gilberg, Parvine Ghadami)
Ministry of Justice, Italy (Gianluca Forlani)
Ministry of Justice, Netherlands (Eliane Eijnwachter)
Ministry of Justice, Poland (Aneta Jakubiak-Mirończuk, Aleksandra Siemianowska, Monika Stachura)
Ministry of Justice, Portugal (Carolina Berto, Maria Luísa Pacheco)
Ministry of Justice, United Kingdom (Cris Coxon)
National Court Administration, Korea (Young Gi Kim),
National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Mexico (Adrian Franco Barrios)
Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies; New York University (David Steven, Maaike de Langen)
Open Society Foundations (Peter Chapman, Zaza Namaradze, Kady Sylla)
Overseas Development Institute (Pilar Domingo)
Statistics South Africa (Isabel Schmidt)
Stephen Golub, International Development Scholar
Swiss Centre for Expertise in Human Rights (Olga Vinogradova)
Teresa Marchiori, Gender and Justice Specialist
University College of London (Pascoe Pleasence)
University of Bologna (Daniela Piana)
University of California, Berkeley (Andrew Westbury)
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (Rebecca Sandefur)
University of Strathclyde; International Legal Aid Group (Alan Paterson)
University Paris Ouest Nanterre (Alessandro Melcarne)
World Bank (Georgia Harley, Paul Prettitore)
World Justice Project (Alejandro Ponce)
as well as from OECD colleagues Romina Boarini, Zsuzsanna Lonti and Santiago Gonzalez.
Editorial and logistical assistance was provided by Benjamin Jouannes, Charlotte Dubald, Cicely Dupont-Nivore, Meral Gedik and Eleonore Morena.