Home >
Law >
Others >
Access to Justice and Legal Aid: Comparative Perspectives on Unmet Legal Need

Access to Justice and Legal Aid: Comparative Perspectives on Unmet Legal Need

Author: Asher Flynn; Jacqueline Hodgson
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509900848

Published In: January 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781509929818

List Price: HKD 1,170.00

HKD 1,134.90 Save HKD 35.10 (3%)

Download Order Form

Add to Wishlist
| Add to Compare

Description
Contents

Details

This book considers how access to justice is affected by restrictions to legal aid budgets and increasingly prescriptive service guidelines, which are a controversial and hotly contested part of the contemporary global legal landscape.

As common law jurisdictions, England and Wales, and Australia, share common ideals, policies and practices. Yet, they also differ in aspects of their legal and political culture, in the nature of the communities they serve, and in the approaches adopted by their respective judiciaries. They provide us with different perspectives on access to justice and how we might seek to overcome the crisis in unmet legal need.

The book fills an important gap in existing scholarship as the first to bring together new empirical and theoretical knowledge examining different justice responses to legal aid crises in these jurisdictions in both domestic and comparative contexts, across the realms of criminal, civil and family law.

It achieves this by examining the broader social, political, legal, health and welfare impacts of legal aid cuts and prescriptive service guidelines. It is essential reading for all those interested in access to justice and legal aid.

1. Access to Justice and Legal Aid Cuts: A Mismatch of Concepts in the Contemporary Australian and British Legal Landscapes

2. Making the Case for a Human Right to Legal Aid

3. The Demise of Criminal Legal Aid in England and Wales

4. The View from the Bench: A Judicial Perspective on Access to Justice

5. Community Lawyers, Law Reform and Systemic Change

6. Face-to-Interface Communication: Accessing Justice by Video Link from Prison

7. DIY Law and Legal Representation: Some Consequences of the Rise of Amateurism and the De-valuing of Expertise

8. The Changing Legal Spaces of Advice Work

9. 'What if there is nowhere you can get advice?' Civil Legal Aid Cuts and Advice Charities

10. What are Lawyers For? Cuts to Legal Aid and the Identity Crisis in Global Lawyering, Lessons from the Experience of England and Wales

11. Insights into Inequality: Victorian Women's Access to Legal Aid

12. Access to What? LASPO and Mediation