Legal aid in crisis: Assessing the Impact of Reform (Shorts: Policy & Practice)

Sarah Moore (University of Bath)

ISBN 10: 1447335457 / ISBN 13: 9781447335450

Editore: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom, 2017

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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. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Codice articolo GOR012461458

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Titolo: Legal aid in crisis: Assessing the Impact of...

Casa editrice: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom

Data di pubblicazione: 2017

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto:

One of the many areas of social support affected by the recent austerity measures in Britain is legal aid, which has suffered under cuts so substantial that, this book argues, the result is the most radical set of changes in the sixty-year history of legal aid in the nation, a transformation of its very meaning and purpose. From an original position as a form of social welfare to which nearly anyone could get access, it is now seen as a benefit, outside the legal system, and almost wholly cast in economic terms. This book looks at this shift and its far-reaching consequences not just for individuals but for the whole of the court system.

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Sarah Moore joined the University of Bath in 2015, having previously held posts at Royal Holloway University of London and Queen&;s University, Belfast. She is the author of Ribbon Culture: Charity, Compassion, and Public Awareness and Crime and the Media. Alex Newbury is a senior lecturer in law at the University of Brighton.