Nigel J Balmer

📣 Out now - Research Handbook on Civil Justice 🖊️ Edited by Anne Bloom, David Engel, and Richard Lorren Jolly 📜 Read first chapter free: elgaronline.com/view/book/9781… 📘 Shop the hardback: e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/9781…

@TransWorldSport Thank you. You guys basically raised me. Best wishes for everyone involved in whatever you do next.

What with twitter going evil, thought I might try @bluesky and turns out it's decent. Would be good to get more Australian law/legal services/A2J presence over there. Looking at you first @LSBC_Victoria @CommunityLawVic @VicLawReform @VicLawFoundn @yourLIV @VicLegalAid Do it!!

@CathBucolo @VicLawFoundn That is really kind of you @CathBucolo!

Really fantastic, important, meaningful, rigorous work about Victorians’ legal capability and what we need to do so people get the legal help they need in the way that they need it. 👏👏🥰 @VicLawFoundn

Many thanks to my co-authors & all those who helped including (but not limited to) @VicLawFoundn, @LSBC_Victoria, @VicLegalAid & 6008 respondents who gave their time to share some of the most challenging episodes of their lives. I hope the work does their stories justice 6/6

There is an imperative to address capability asymmetries to better meet needs and ultimately, democratize justice. There are challenges for many including regulators, policy makers and all those engage with those facing problems. Its about tailoring to legal capability 5/6

Launched Vol 3 of The Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS) this week - puls.victorialawfoundation.org.au/publications/a… Here's what it is all about The PULS is a legal needs & a legal capability survey, and its big, involving speaking to over 6,000 people face-to-face in their own homes 🧵 1/6

@mjburnett @VicLawFoundn Thanks @mjburnett! It was a really fun project to work on and has given me at least 6 months of much needed new soundbites to wear out. Here's the visual equivalent of a legal capability soundbite from the launch. Turns out its really hard to draw scissors.

Job Alert 🚨 ICYMI 4 amazing roles for skilled and passionate empirical legal researchers currently advertised at @LSBC_Victoria careers.vic.gov.au/jobs/justice-a… Fabulous opportunity to work at a great org, with smart & principled people, while having a positive impact on the world!

Check out what we at the @a2jlab & @EmilyLagratta wrote in the @StateCourts Trends publication about our study of online courts relative to case processing outcomes and perceptions of fairness. ncsc.org/__data/assets/… Let the litigant choose!

Super empirical legal research job alert!! Research is up and running at @LSBC_Victoria & we are recruiting! 4 great research roles right here careers.vic.gov.au/jobs/justice-a… Want to do some rigorous research that has positive real world impact? Then this is for you! Get involved!

A new article in @DukeJudicature by Rhode's Lucy Ricca on #RegulatoryReform, evidence & innovation and access in legal services highlights 2 projects that create regulatory environments to enable evidence-based, people-centered services. Read it here: judicature.duke.edu/articles/outsi… #a2j

Tanina Rostain & James Teufel with framework for evaluating lay legal assistance programs - v interesting scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewconten… Channels Ronald Fisher - "Rather than an exercise after-the-fact, evaluation needs to be built into the design of innovations". I surprisingly agree

What’s #housinginsecurity got to do with the legal sector? Hear from our Board CEO and Commissioner, #FionaMcLeay, at the launch of our #Advancinghousingjustice report and grant round. 🧵 @GerardBrody #auslaw

Very interesting report on Debt & Eviction by @LisaLawSoton & @TraceyVarnava financialfairness.org.uk/docs?editionId… Some too familiar themes around inaccessible process, low trust/confidence, escalating problems & need to better reflect needs/capabilities through regulation/reform/design/data

@RichardMoorhead Ye Cracke