| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Who can be categorized as 'most vulnerable' to access to justice? I have explored the question primarily by seeking what kind of factors may constitute a person as vulnerable. Contrary to apparent factors such as mental and physical capacities, age, economic circumstance which make people as noticeably vulnerable, there are some people with invisible vulnerability such as LGBT people. It is because their vulnerability may not be necessarily measured within current social and legal framework, they remain invisible and their difficulties in access to justice is not shared in Japan due to general lacking of their social and legal recognition.
There is not a single factor but multiple, combined and complex factors which may construct a person as being 'vulnerable'. It is also found commonly that various kinds of "intermediaries" who go between such vulnerable people and legal professionals may function efficiently in promoting access to justice.
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