The University of Otago Legal Issues Centre - Te Pokapū Take Ture

Nau mai, haere mai ki Te Pokapū Take Ture (Welcome to the Legal Issues Centre)

The University of Otago Legal Issues Centre (UOLIC) is based in the Faculty of Law. The Centre serves as an intellectual meeting ground for interdisciplinary researchers, legal practitioners, policy makers and educators interested in advancing knowledge about the impact of law, legal processes and services. Its purpose is to carry out research on legal issues relating to how a more accessible, affordable and efficient legal system can be created for the benefit of all citizens and to carry out research on how courts can best ascertain the truth and arrive at a fair and just outcome. We aim to conduct and disseminate empirical research of the highest international quality that promotes understanding of access to justice.

The Centre’s goals are:

• To advance conceptual and practical understanding of factors that promote access to justice in New Zealand;
• To identify and examine mechanisms that explain differences in the use of legal services;
• To contribute to and disseminate practice and policy of knowledge relating to the development of legal services; and
• To work in collaboration with other researchers, legal professions, the judiciary and legal policy-makers nationally and internationally to enhance understanding of factors that promote access to justice.

The Centre was established at the Faculty in 2007 through a gift from the Gama Foundation and the University of Otago Foundation Trust. 

You can follow the Centre's work via this web site, or by clicking 'like' on the Centre's facebook page.

General Enquiries
University of Otago Legal Issues Centre, Faculty of Law, P O Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand. 

Email: lic@otago.ac.nz; ph:+64-3-479-8979; fax:+64-3-479-8855 

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