Sign in the Name of the King: Accessibility to the Judicature for People with Hearing Disabilities

Abstract

This article addresses some specific content among those discussed in the doctoral thesis «The accessible participation of people with hearing disabilities in the Administration of Justice», in which, starting from a brief reference to the most relevant paradigms or models of perception and assessment of the fact of disability, the articles of the EC that protect such right are analyzed, subsequently focusing on the study of whether such participation is currently considerably inclusive and integrative, and whether it offers equal opportunities with regard to the possible option of carrying out such participation through the specific role of judges framed in the judicial career, to finally investigate the reasons or variables that hinder or favor this being so, and concluding with a final assessment of all this, after a concise analysis of them under the structure of the SWOT tool.