Direito em Movimento - Volume 18 - Número 3 - Edição Especial

179 ARTIGOS Direito em Movimento, Rio de Janeiro, v. 18 - n. 3, p. 176-198, 2020 - Ed. Especial law schools use itinerancy to promote experiential learning through legal clinics. 5 For the sake of clarity, I therefore propose that ‘itinerant legal ser- vices’ bifurcate into: (a) ‘ itinerant justice’ (IJ) which are mobile judicial/court services; and (b) non-judicial initiatives which could be labelled ‘proactive legal services’ (PLS), and seen as complementary to mobile courts (IJ). PLS normally will be public sector legal services (including clinics provided by some law schools), though not exclusively so, as today some private law firms also engage in outreach to remote communities. 6 Both are required if citizen’s rights are to be made more effective. It is interesting to note that the former Chief Justice of Australia, Robert French, started out his career as a lawyer serving a remote community and later became President of the National Native Title Tribunal, proving that at a personal level some judges have direct experience of both forms of itinerancy (FRENCH, 2011). 7 There is a third related kind of justice I shall call ‘ remote justice’ , which complements and possibly competes with, or duplicates, mobile courts that I shall not discuss in any depth here, which is becoming increasingly rele- vant in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. 8 Remote justice (which could include remote courts, conciliation and other ADR services) tend not to be mobile and usually operate from fixed locations in cities, but potentially could be based almost anywhere, including judges’ or media- tors’ offices and homes, and have the capacity to reach remote geographi- cal locations provided there is an internet or telephone connection. Unlike ‘itinerant legal services’, remote justice offers clients no direct, personal or face-to-face communication (apart from video hearings via Skype, Zoom or some other online platform) as here it is the virtual and distant nature of human contact, rather than geographical location of the service provider, that defines remoteness. 5Not unlike the original Norwegian Jussbuss, or mobile clinics run by law students at Riga law school in Latvia, some Brazilian law schools also use vans and buses to take professors and students to peripheral locations and some law schools, I am told, have established agreements with State Courts to offer advice services alongside official itinerant justice. The Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) has a campus located in Oriximá (Pará) which also could be considered part of the itinerant movement (even though it operates from a fixed location) because it proactively brings legal advice services to remote clients. 6 Some private law firms in Canada are now specialising in ‘remote work’, e.g. REMOTE LAW CANADA (n. d.) and HART (2018). 7 Also worth noting is that the Chief Justice of South Australia is patron of the National Rural Law & Justice Alliance. 8 See further REMOTE COURTS WORLDWIDE (n.d.) and REMOTE JUSTICE STORIES (n.d.) projects.