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Speech by Sir Ernest Ryder, Senior President of Tribunals: Assisting Access to Justice

20 March 2018

1. It is a real pleasure to be here today to talk about access to justice. It has been described as the most fundamental of rights that we have. Without it our other rights - whether they are rights to property, rights under contract, public law rights or human rights - are chimerical. Access to justice is "not just a right in itself. It is [the] key enabler for making other fundamental rights a reality.' It is incumbent on all of us - whether judges, lawyers, law teachers, law students, just as it is of wider society - to do all we can to ensure that access to justice is such a reality. We are all called on to assist access to justice. And that is my theme today. In looking at it I want to focus on a number of necessarily related ideas:

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