| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MATSUMURA Kazunori Okayama University, Faculty of Law, Professor, 法学部, 教授 (20229529)
HATTORI Takahiro Kyoto University, Graduate School of Law, Professor, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (00218504)
MORIYA Akira Kansei Gakuin University, Faculty of Law, Professor, 法学部, 教授 (30127592)
SATO Goro Okayama University, Faculty of Law, Associate Professor, 法学部, 助教授 (20273956)
YAMADA Aya Kyoto University, Graduate School of Law, Associate Professor, 大学院・法学研究科, 助教授 (40230445)
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| Research Abstract |
We found that the network of legal service providers (including legal professions and others, such as administrative agencies) developed in regions/communities had three features : partiality, informality, and voluntariness. We also found that, in order to deliver higher quality of legal services to the users in regions/communities, each legal profession needed to establish a more comprehensive network of legal services. Under this premise, we tried to design such a comprehensive network model, which aids both legal service providers and users to associate with each other in developing quality of and accessibility to legal services. It required us, at the same time, to re-construct the legal service model itself.
In our model, legal professions would collaborate with each other more closely on promotion of understanding of each other and on exchanging information between the professions. It would provide the legal professions with the possibility that they response more efficiently to the citizens and businesses within the region, who need comprehensive legal services. It would be accomplished not offered by one kind of profession (such as a legal advice offered by an attorney), but based on multi-disciplinary legal services (such as a cumulated advice by an attorney and a tax lawyer). In this context, it is necessary for the network of legal professions not only to respond the expectations that citizens and businesses apparently raise, but also to dig out their underlying needs and to secure them for their own benefits.
The academic is included within our model. It is to play a unique role to give the legal service providers long-term solutions and advices on the delivery system of legal services, based on the analysis of kinds of information and data offered by the legal professions, the administrative agencies, and the NGOs.
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