Legal problems

From MicroJustice

Indications of the most urgent legal problems are described in a paper Priorities for the Justice System: Responding to the Most Urgent Legal Problems of Individuals. Problems listed here are the following:

• Security and general prevention of crime (peacekeeping, policing, etc.). This is probably difficult to achieve with the Microjustice methods:
  • prevention of third party violence
  • prevention of extortion
  • prevention of property crimes
• Access to registration processes. This can be achieved by Microjustice processes:
  • property registration
  • civil registration (birth certificates, death certificates)
  • registration of businesses
• Access to human rights’ processes and good governance. This may be achieved with the methods of Microjustice:
  • unfair detention
  • expropriation and fair compensation
  • tax conflicts
  • abuse of power
• Access to dispute resolution processes. These processes can also be the core business for Microjustice:
  • restorative justice for victims of violence
  • eviction of tenants; land use conflicts
  • termination of employment and employment conditions
  • termination of domestic partnerships (marriages, common law marriages, etc.)
  • domestic violence
  • resolution of neighborly and neighborhood conflict
  • termination of business relationships
  • debt collection
  • wateruse conflicts
  • equal access to health care, education etc.
  • consumer complaints and quality of goods/services
  • pensions and financial services

Focusing on these problem categories is probably a safe bet. Whether these are actually the most urgent problems for the target group has to be checked with members of this group, though.