Fourth meeting of the Task Force on Access to Justice

The fourth meeing of the Task Force on Access to Justice took place from 7 to 8 February 2011, in Salle V at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, back to back with the thirteenth session of the Working Group of the Parties (9-11 February 2011).

The Task Force discussed a wide range of issues related to the access to justice, including capacity-building efforts, jurisprudence database and analytical studies on costs and remedies as barriers to access to justice. Furthermore, the Task Force discussed possible work in this area after the fourth session of the Meeting of the Parties, scheduled to take place on 29 June - 1 July 2011 in Chisinau, on the basis of a draft decision on promoting effective access to justice. The outcome of the meeting of the Task Force was presented by its Chair to the thirteenth session of the Working Group of the Parties.

The Task Force also decided to build on the existing material on costs and remedies and to develop a set of good practices and analyses on the following priority issues: the loser pays principle; legal aid and other methods of funding for public interest lawyers and NGOs; and criteria for injunctions.