Access to Justice Indicators – a Hungarian Perspective (P001)

• In Event: Poster session

Abstract

Measuring the functioning and performance of a democratic institution, such as the legal system, is crucial to identify its potential malfunctions, monitoring new reforms, or simply keeping track of its effectiveness. One tool which enables this measuring is „justice indicators”, as these indicators can communicate various information about the legal system. The poster aims to draw up the relevant lines of a research concerning the measurement by justice indicators of a particular matter of the justice system, namely access to justice in Hungary. The poster also presents the preliminary findings of the first “mapping out” empirical part of the research, which contains interviews with legal professionals working with vulnerable groups. These preliminary findings give substantive indications for the indicators planned to be developed during the investigation. The interviews map out the relevant nods of access to justice barriers and also touch on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Author

• Eszter Kovács Szitkay, Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies, Budapest, Hungary; University of Public Service Doctoral School of Law Enforcement, Budapest, Hungary