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4 Eur. Y.B. Disability L. 7 (2013)
Disability and Access to Justice in the European Union: Implication of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

handle is hein.journals/euydisl4 and id is 23 raw text is: DISABILITY AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: IMPLICATIONS OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES Eilion6ir Flynn' and Anna Lawson2 1. INTRODUCTION Access to justice is a topic which has attracted significant academic interest in recent years.3 Its disability-related dimensions, however, have to date attracted BCL, PhD (University College Cork). Senior ResearchFellow, Centre for Disability Law and Policy, National University of Ireland, Galway. I would like to acknowledge my students on the Access to Justice and Advocacy module of the LLM in International and Comparative Disability Law, who have provided me with insights into access to justice at a global level, and helped to shape my thinking on this subject. This article has been subject to independent and anonymous peer review. 2 School of Law and Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds. Parts of this article draw on work conducted as background research for the Fundamental Rights Agency project on the fundamental rights of people with mental health problems and people with intellectual disabilities - which has resulted in a number of reports including EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Choice and Control: The Right to Independent Living (Publications Office of the EU, 2012) and EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Involuntary Placement and Involuntary Treatment of Persons with Mental Health Problems (Publications Office of the EU, 2012). I am particularly grateful to Oliver Lewis, executive director of the Mental Disability Advocacy Centre, Budapest, who co-authored an unpublished background report to which the research on access to justice contributed, for the opportunity to discuss that research with him and for his valuable insights as the work progressed. I am also grateful to Kasia Jurczak and other staff of the Fundamental Rights Agency for their comments on that research. The views expressed in this article are not necessarily shared by them, however. Finally, I would like to thank University of Leeds students on the International Human Rights and Disabled People and the Alternative Dispute Resolution modules in 2011-2012, and my colleague Dr lyiola Solanke, for interesting discussions of this topic. 3 See e.g. Y. Ghai and J. Cottrell (eds.), Marginalised Communities and Access to Justice, (Routledge, 2010); I. Van de Meene and B. Van Rooij, Access to Justice and Legal Empowerment: Making the Poor Central in Legal Development Co-operation Intersentia 7

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