From the Evolution of Access to Justice to Modern Public Interest Litigation in Europe

Abstract

The study presents an aspect of a fair trial as an aspect of human rights and access to justice. However, it takes into account—not in a descriptive way—the economic and social changes that are taking place. As a result of globalization and mass production, changes in the market economy transform the traditional structure of legal relationships. In private law, the balance of power between the parties is overturned which requires public intervention. Traditional private law enforcing institutions are no longer fit to compensate for changes in economic and business life.

„Ubi jus ibi remedium.”
(Ahol az orvoslat, ott a jog.)