Legal Aid in Crisis
Assessing the Impact of Reform
Sarah Moore author Alex Newbury author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bristol University Press
Published:12th Apr '17
Should be back in stock very soon
Originally introduced as a form of social welfare with near-universal eligibility, legal aid in the UK is now framed as a benefit external to the legal system and understood in primarily economic terms. This book is the first to evaluate the recent reforms of UK legal aid from a social policy perspective and assess their impact on family law courts and advocacy. Written by experts in the field, it focuses on the rise in people representing their own legal case and argues that the reforms effectively ‘delawyerise’ disputes, producing a more inquisitorial justice system and impacting the litigants, court system, staff and process. Arguing for a more holistic concept of the reforms, the book will be of relevance to students, academics, policy-makers, judges, campaigners and social workers, not just in England and Wales, but in other jurisdictions instituting cuts to their legal aid budgets, such as Australia, Scotland, France, and the Netherlands.
"A valuable and timely contribution to the discussion of the impact of reforms to legal aid in England and Wales." Jennifer Sigafoos, University of Liverpool
"This social policy perspective on recent legal aid reform provides essential reading for those engaged in access to justice thinking." Pascoe Pleasence, University College London
ISBN: 9781447335450
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96 pages