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“How we talk about law and justice in England and Wales matters.”

Nick Emmerson, president of The Law Society of England and Wales writes in the Gazette with Tamsyn Hyatt, director of evidence at FrameWorks UK, about the next phase of our Reframing Justice programme.

They said: “In phase one of the programme, FrameWorks UK identified how the public think about the rule of law and access to justice and what mindsets underlie these views.

“Mindsets are deep, assumed patterns of thinking that shape how we see the world and how we act within it. Mindsets can either normalise or problematise aspects of the existing social order.

“Understanding mindsets means we can understand how people think – and what understanding is still to build.

“We found key tensions between how experts in the field of law and justice and the wider public understand the rule of law and access to justice.

“This is just the start of the programme. In the next phase, we will develop and test new ways to communicate about the rule of law and access to justice.”