Reimagining Justice covers issues at the intersection of innovation, law and social justice and you will enjoy it if you’re someone who hopes to make a positive improvement to people’s experience of the law through new ways of thinking and doing.
Episode no. 62 is with Lindsay Greatorex, Community Liaison and Education Officer (West Kimberley) with Legal Aid Western Australia (LAWA). We discuss:
- Blurred Borders – legal resource kits using visual art and storytelling to explain legal concepts in a culturally appropriate way
- why the kits were developed and how the project got started
- the number of kits that have been distributed, who uses them and what accounts for the universal appeal of these resources
- what a bail process map has to do with sticks and rocks
- the importance of community outreach in remote areas
- the process used by the project team to get the language and the art “right”
- how an artist identified what was missing and what that meant for adoption of the project by the community
- the form of user-centred design unique to this project that engages clients and increases interaction
- the importance of collaboration across sectors
- the key benefits from the project and some unintended consequences
- how community workers have used the resource in helpful ways in local language
- the challenges developing a project in such a remote area three times the size of the Tasmania (including the need for flexibility, high staff turnover and lack of understanding of the English language)
- the importance of having the right people to maintain the relationships in community and to ensure that the project was culturally appropriate
- how Legal Aid WA determines whether the project is having impact
- what Lindsay would do to expand this project if he had a magic want
- whether technology would be appropriate for this application
- the tension between investing time to save time
- future uses for the resource kits and
- Lindsay’s definition of legal innovation!
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Links:
- Blurred Borders
- Evaluation
- The Kimberley
- Feedspot
- Webinar on Innovation and Access to Justice
- Neota Logic
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