ABSTRACT
Conflicting visions and objectives are often at the origin of breaches of social or legal norms that legal narration can induce to return to an ordinary situation or towards the creation of new possibilities. The client-attorney’s story is then seen to be oriented towards transformation, challenging the fixed and canonical nature that is otherwise typical of legal narrations. The ability to narrate events and a collaborative client-attorney relationship are constituent parts of a successful legal agentivity. The storytelling workshop is designed not to socialise laypersons to the culturally consistent narrative, but to introduce tensions which then transform what is or might be the culturally consistent legal narrative. In the storytelling workshop, clients, lawyers and other members of society could work together to increase awareness about the ways in which the law operates in daily life, in administrative practices as well as in court proceedings.
