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April 2021
- Press release on good practice exchange — EN: Legal professionals exchange good practices for access to justice for persons with disabilities
- FR: Les professionnels du droit échangent sur les bonnes pratiques pour l’accès à la justice des personnes handicapées
- ES: Profesionales del derecho intercambian buenas prácticas para el acceso a la justicia de las personas con discapacidad
- ES: Profesionales del Derecho intercambian buenas prácticas… | Legal Today
March 2021
- Press release on workshops — EN: European lawyers and judges address legislation, policies and best practices regarding access to justice for persons with disabilities during a workshop
- FR: Le barreau et la magistrature européennes organisent un atelier…
- ES: La abogacía y judicatura europea abordan en un taller…
- ES: La abogacía y judicatura europea… | Legal Today
November 2020
June 2020
July 2019
May 2019
- EN: Seminar 3: Ensuring access to justice for persons with disabilities…
- EN: Press release: Seminar 2: Barriers of access to justice…
- EN: Research to improve access to justice for people with disabilities | EurekAlert
- ES: El Significado de la Justicia… | Diario 16
- ES: El acceso a la justicia de las personas con discapacidad | Catalunya Vanguardista
- ES: Investigación para mejorar el acceso a la justicia… | DICYT
- ES: ONCE y UC3M investigan… | La Vanguardia
February – April 2019
- EN: Press release: Seminar 2…
- EN: Press release: Seminar 1: Barriers of access to justice…
- ES: ¿Qué significa la justicia… | Legal Today
- ES: Un seminario internacional analiza las barreras… | Discapnet
- ES: ¿Es accesible el sistema de justicia europeo? | Legal Today
- ES: Just4All recopila las buenas practicas… | Discapnet
- ES: Just4All recopila las buenas practicas… | Legal Today
Other resources
The following are resources that may be of interest to legal professionals working with persons with disabilities.
Databases
- DOTCOM: the Disability Online Tool of the Commission — database of national laws, policies, strategies and initiatives in EU Member States, candidate and associated countries.
- Handbook on European Law relating to access to justice (2016) by FRA. See Section 8.1 Persons with Disabilities.
- "Know Your Rights" by the European Disability Forum (2018) / Available in Easy to Read
- Persons with Disabilities and the European Convention on Human Rights (2019) — Factsheet by the Press Unit of the European Court of Human Rights
- Summaries of Mental Disability Cases Decided by the European Court of Human Rights (2007) by Validity
- UNCRPD Library of the Academy of European Law (ERA)
LGBTI+
- Oppression Squared — D/deaf and disabled trans experiences in Europe (2018). Report from Transgender Europe’s Expert Meeting on D/deaf and Disabled Trans Experiences (Berlin, July 2017).
Promising practices
- The Advocates Gateway Toolkits — free practical guidance on vulnerable witnesses and defendants (autism, learning disability, hidden disabilities, remote links, deafness, communication aids, and more).
- AJuPID — Guide of promising practices on legal capacity and access to justice (2015)
- Dignity at Trial — Enhancing procedural safeguards for suspects with intellectual and psycho-social disabilities Handbook (2018)
- Equal Treatment Bench Book by Judicial College
Police training
- Video — Research makes police custody more 'autism-friendly' (2019)
- Understanding and identifying disability hate crime — online course by Facing Facts Online / CEJI
- Guide to disabled communities for police