Civil Procedure: Access to Commercial Justice

Dr Petra Butler, University of Canterbury, is Amo Matua | Executive Dean – Law, Director, Institute of Small and Micro States and an Honorary Senior Fellow, British Institute of International and Comparative Law.Allanah Colley, BA/LLB (Hons), LLM (NYU), is a Ph.D. Candidate in Law at the University of Melbourne and an International Consultant with the United Nations Team of Experts on Rule of Law and Sexual Violence in Conflict. She has published articles related to gender and sexuality law, criminal law, the legal profession and access to justice, and is a Trustee of the New Zealand Women’s Law Journal – Te Aho Kawe Kaupapa Ture a ngā Wāhine.

• 1 The Financial Obstacles to Civil Litigation: Access to the Judge in the Age of Technology, Human Rights And State Spending CutsPetra Butler, Allanah Colley2 Cost and Fee Allocation in Austrian Civil ProcedureJoachim Pierer3 An Overview of Access to Justice in BrazilGustavo Moser, Mariana Tonolli Chiavone Delchiaro, Susana Henriques da Costa4 The Financial Obstacles of Access to the Judge: CanadaMarie-Claude Desjardins, Sèdjro Axel-Luc Hountohotegbè5 Access to Justice in Civil Cases in ChinaMing Liao6 Litigation Costs as an Obstacle to Access to Courts in CroatiaVesna Tomljenović, Paula Poretti7 The Financial Obstacles to Civil Litigation in GermanyAnn-Kristin Mayrhofer, Beate Gsell8 Just a Matter of Time? The Financial Obstacles to Access to Civil Litigation in ItalyAlessandra De Luca9 Access to Japanese Civil Justice: From a Financial ViewpointHirotoshi Uchiumi10 Litigation Costs in Dutch Civil Procedure and the Right of Access to Justice: A Fair Balance?Fokke Fernhout11 The Financial Obstacles of Access to The Judge: New ZealandBridgette Toy-Cronin12 The Financial Obstacles of Access to the Judge: RomaniaFlavius A. Baias, Silviu M. Munteanu13 Access to Justice: The Financial Obstacles to Civil Litigation in SingaporeWee Ling Loo14 The Financial Obstacles of Access to the Judge: The Case of SloveniaKatja Plauštajner Metelko15 The Divide in South African Justice: Rights on Paper, Barriers in RealityTheo Broodryk16 Access to Justice and Financial Obstacles in TurkeyErsin Erdogan17 Costs in Ukrainian Civil Procedure: The Price of JusticeIryna Izarova18 Access to Civil Justice in the United StatesMargaret Y. K. Woo, Jacqueline VieiraIndex