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

187 ARTIGOS Direito em Movimento, Rio de Janeiro, v. 18 - n. 3, p. 176-198, 2020 - Ed. Especial concern native title, do not necessarily follow standard procedures, or the conventions of court etiquette, and translators may be required. Normal rules of evidence may be suspended or adapted, but without compromising core values of the judicial process. Quite apart from resolving local disputes between parties, from a more anthropological standpoint these bush courts can raise deeper questions about what exactly is a court, and what is really required in the just resolution of disputes.The legal process frequently relies on frills and formalism, which often come with an expensive price tag, and these mobile courts force us to focus on what is essential in adjudication. To that extent, I think we can see IJ (and itinerant legal services more generally) as a kind of ‘legal laboratory’ where we have the freedom to ex- periment with new forms of more accessible justice. So while some, parti- cularly those fixated on technology, might argue that IJ is today obsolete, if not moribund, because they will soon be replaced by online court and dis- pute processing services, we should not ignore their ongoing contributions across a number of different fronts: from helping citizens navigate obscure bureaucratic and legal processes, through helping the next generation of lawyer connect with real people (and real legal problems) by exposing law students to formative clinical experiences that shape their professionalism and, finally, to helping reform the mainstream legal system itself by allo- wing judicial and other innovators the freedom to experiment. So, what are the future priorities and options for those wishing to strengthen IJ? 4. FUTURE PLANNING: GEOGRAPHY, DIAGNOSTICS AND COMPETENCIES In my final comments, I want to suggest it may be time to take iti- nerant justice to the next level by developing another delivery model, one that goes beyond improvised solutions advanced by courageous, creative individual judges acting on impulse and initiative, toward a more strategic approach in which legal service delivery is guided by rigorous research and better planned through regional legal services committees on which sta- keholder interests are represented, including Indigenous communities and