PLE News
A quick round up of recent activities in the world of public legal education.
In this section, we have information about conferences and events both here and overseas, information about vacancies and training as well other news items that reach us form time to time.
Better Information Training
The next two training course are being held in York on 15th November and in London on 25th November. Book now !
Public legal education in Scotland
The Scottish Civil Justice Advisory Group published a consultation, ‘Ensuring effective access to appropriate and affordable dispute resolution’ in August 2010 and hosted a seminar on 13th September with Professor Dame Hazel Genn as their keynote speaker. Presentations from Hazel Genn and Sarah O'Neill, head of policy at Consumer Focus can be found on the website .
The consultation considered the Scottish Civil Courts Review’s recommendation that the promotion of public legal education should be an element of any strategy to improve access to justice.
Read the
consultation paper
(338 KB)
and Plenet's
response
(98 KB)
. More about
Scottish Civil Justice Advisory Group
and a
Petition to the Scottish Parliament
.
Éducaloi conference: 'Plain language: How does it concern you?'
Éducaloi in Canada is holding a conference, ‘Plain language: How does it concern you?’ on 21st and 22nd October 2010 in Montreal. Workshops include ‘Preparing the citizens of tomorrow through justice education’ and ‘Community organisations and plain language legal information’.
