Video

Legal need empowerment and older people

The voices of older people, and their experience of and response to life problems can be overlooked in access to justice debates. This session focuses specifically on older people, their legal need, and how they might be empowered.

Speakers

Frances Batchelor, Acting Director of the National Ageing Research Institute and Senior Principal Research Fellow

Susannah Sage Jacobson, Research Associate, University of South Australia

Eileen Webb, Professor of Law and Ageing, University of South Australia

Katherine C. Pearson, Professor of Law, Arthur L. and Sandra S. Piccone 

Faculty Scholar, Dickinson Law, Pennsylvania State University

Facilitated by Ian Yates AM, Chief Executive of Council on the Ageing (COTA) Australia

Showcasing access to justice and legal need development

Connecting the justice, community and academic sectors around legal research and evaluation related to access to justice.