Access To Justice And Legal Aid

Author : Asher Flynn,Jacqueline Hodgson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509900855

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Access to Justice and Legal Aid by Asher Flynn,Jacqueline Hodgson Pdf

This book considers how access to justice is affected by restrictions to legal aid budgets and increasingly prescriptive service guidelines. As common law jurisdictions, England and Wales and Australia, share similar ideals, policies and practices, but they differ in aspects of their legal and political culture, in the nature of the communities they serve and in their approaches to providing access to justice. These jurisdictions thus provide us with different perspectives on what constitutes justice and how we might seek to overcome the burgeoning 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 responses to legal aid crises both in the domestic and comparative contexts, across 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. Across both jurisdictions, this work suggests that it is the most vulnerable groups who lose out in the way the law now operates in the twenty-first century. This book is essential reading for academics, students, practitioners and policymakers interested in criminal and civil justice, access to justice, the provision of legal assistance and legal aid.

Author : Trevor C.W. Farrow,Lesley A. Jacobs
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774863605

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The Justice Crisis by Trevor C.W. Farrow,Lesley A. Jacobs Pdf

Unfulfilled legal needs are at a tipping point in much of the Canadian justice system. The Justice Crisis assesses what is and isn’t working in efforts to strengthen a fundamental right of democratic citizenship: access to civil and family justice. Contributors to this wide-ranging overview of recent empirical research address key issues: the extent and cost of unmet legal needs; the role of public funding; connections between legal and social exclusion among vulnerable populations; the value of new legal pathways; the provision of justice services beyond the courts and lawyers; and the need for a culture change within the justice system.

Author : M. J. Trebilcock,Lorne Sossin,A. J. Duggan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442612686

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Middle Income Access to Justice by M. J. Trebilcock,Lorne Sossin,A. J. Duggan Pdf

Featuring contributions by leading Canadian and international scholars, practitioners, and members of the judiciary, this multidisciplinary collection draws on scholarship in the fields of law, social science, and public policy. There is a particular emphasis on family law, consumer law, and employment law, as these are the areas where research has indicated that unmet legal needs are highest.

Author : Deborah L. Rhode
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195349474

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Access to Justice by Deborah L. Rhode Pdf

"Equal Justice Under Law" is one of America's most proudly proclaimed and widely violated legal principles. But it comes nowhere close to describing the legal system in practice. Millions of Americans lack any access to justice, let alone equal access. Worse, the increasing centrality of law in American life and its growing complexity has made access to legal assistance critical for all citizens. Yet according to most estimates about four-fifths of the legal needs of the poor, and two- to three-fifths of the needs of middle-income individuals remain unmet. This book reveals the inequities of legal assistance in America, from the lack of access to educational services and health benefits to gross injustices in the criminal defense system. It proposes a specific agenda for change, offering tangible reforms for coordinating comprehensive systems for the delivery of legal services, maximizing individual's opportunities to represent themselves, and making effective legal services more affordable for all Americans who need them.

Author : Law Society of Upper Canada
Publisher : Irwin Law
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Aide juridique
ISBN : 0887594158

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Access to Justice for a New Century by Law Society of Upper Canada Pdf

This book is a timely addition to the literature on access to justice. The book's essays address all aspects of the topic, including differing views on the meaning of access to justice; ways to improve access to legal services; litigation and its role in achieving social justice; and the roles of lawyers, citizens, and legal insitutions. Access to Justice for a New Century is based on papers given at an international symposium presented by the Law Society of Upper Canada, sponsored by the Law Foundation of Ontario.

Author : Rebecca L. Sanderfur
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848552432

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Access to Justice by Rebecca L. Sanderfur Pdf

Around the world, access to justice enjoys an energetic and passionate resurgence as an object both of scholarly inquiry and political contest, as both a social movement and a value commitment motivating study and action. This work evidences a deeper engagement with social theory than past generations of scholarship.

Author : Helena Whalen-Bridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781316517451

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The Role of Lawyers in Access to Justice by Helena Whalen-Bridge Pdf

Includes papers presented as a conference in SIngapore in 2017.--ECIP acknowledgments.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ntl Inst for Trial Advocacy
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 1601560168

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Access to Justice in Africa and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alison Brewin
Publisher : Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Legal aid
ISBN : 9780886273774

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Legal Aid Denied: Women and the Cuts to Legal Services in BC by Alison Brewin Pdf

LEGAL AID DENIED Women and the Cuts to Legal Services in BC By Alison Brewin With Lindsay Stephens SEPTEMBER 2004 Legal Aid Denied: Women and the Cuts to Legal Services in BC By Alison Brewin With Lindsay Stephens September 2004 ABOUT THE AUTHORS Alison Brewin is the Program Director at West Coast LEAF, managing the law reform, litigation and public legal education work of the organization. [...] Recommendations for the government to redress this situation include: ensure funding for legal aid goes directly to legal aid services; eliminate the requirement that violence be present in the eligibility rules for family law legal aid; restructure the LSS Board to re-establish an arms length relationship between the government and the Society; and provide civil law legal aid services according t [...] In addition to legal aid, some of the changes include: • The elimination of the Ministry of Women's Equality; • The end of the universal daycare program that had begun to be implemented by the previous provincial government; • Cuts in accessibility to child care subsidies; • Elimination of the Human Rights Commission; • End to funding for women's centres; • Cuts and changes to welfare rules, inclu [...] The Charter not only includes Section 11's statements about the right to a fair trial: it also includes statements about rights to life, liberty and security of the person (Section 7); assurances that every one is equal before the law and has the right to equal protection of the law (Section 15); and guarantees that the fundamental rights outlined in the Charter must apply equally to men and women [...] Women and Poverty and Immigration Law Services Poverty Law Services Poverty law is the one area of law defined by the income level of the individual, not the subject matter of the legal problem.

Author : Allan C. Hutchinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Courts
ISBN : OSU:32437000261632

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Access to Civil Justice by Allan C. Hutchinson Pdf

Author : Felice Batlan,Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030802714

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Histories of Legal Aid by Felice Batlan,Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen Pdf

This book focuses on the history of the provision of legal aid and legal assistance to the poor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in eight different countries. It is the first such book to bring together historical work on legal aid in a comparative perspective, and allows readers to analogise and contrast historical narratives about free legal aid across countries. Legal aid developed as a result of industrialisation, urbanization, immigration, the rise of philanthropy, and what were viewed as new legal problems. Closely related, was the growing professionalisation of lawyers and the question of what duties lawyers owed society to perform free work. Yet, legal aid providers in many countries included lay women and men, leading at times to tensions with the bar. Furthermore, legal aid often became deeply politicized, creating dramatic conflicts concerning the rights of the poor to have equal access to justice.

Author : Alan Paterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139505062

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Lawyers and the Public Good by Alan Paterson Pdf

For the 2010 Hamlyn Lectures, Alan Paterson explores different facets of three key institutions in a democracy: lawyers, access to justice and the judiciary. In the case of lawyers he asks whether professionalism is now in terminal decline. To examine access to justice, he discusses past and present crises in legal aid and potential endgames and in relation to judges he examines possible mechanisms for enhancing judicial accountability. In demonstrating that the benign paternalism of lawyers in determining the public good with respect to such issues is no longer unchallenged, he argues that the future roles of lawyers, access to justice and the judiciary will only emerge from dialogues with other stakeholders claiming to speak for the public interest.

Author : Olaf Halvorsen Rønning,Ole Hammerslev
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319466842

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Outsourcing Legal Aid in the Nordic Welfare States by Olaf Halvorsen Rønning,Ole Hammerslev Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the differences and similarities between civil legal aid schemes in the Nordic countries whilst outlining recent legal aid transformations in their respective welfare states. Based on in-depth studies of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland, the authors compare these cases with legal aid in Europe and the US to examine whether a single, unique Nordic model exists. Contextualizing Nordic legal aid in relation to welfare ideology and human rights, Hammerslev and Halvorsen Rønning consider whether flaws in the welfare state exist, and how legal aid affects disadvantaged citizens. Concluding that the five countries all have very different legal aid schemes, the authors explore an important general trend: welfare states increasingly outsourcing legal aid to the market and the third sector through both membership organizations and smaller voluntary organizations. A methodical and compassionate text, this book will be of special interest to scholars and students of the criminal justice, the welfare state, and the legal aid system.

Author : Sahar Maranlou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107072602

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Access to Justice in Iran by Sahar Maranlou Pdf

A critical and in-depth analysis of access to justice from international and Islamic perspectives, with a specific focus on access by women.

Author : Deborah L. Rhode
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190286668

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Access to Justice by Deborah L. Rhode Pdf

"Equal Justice Under Law" is one of America's most proudly proclaimed and widely violated legal principles. But it comes nowhere close to describing the legal system in practice. Millions of Americans lack any access to justice, let alone equal access. Worse, the increasing centrality of law in American life and its growing complexity has made access to legal assistance critical for all citizens. Yet according to most estimates about four-fifths of the legal needs of the poor, and two- to three-fifths of the needs of middle-income individuals remain unmet. This book reveals the inequities of legal assistance in America, from the lack of access to educational services and health benefits to gross injustices in the criminal defense system. It proposes a specific agenda for change, offering tangible reforms for coordinating comprehensive systems for the delivery of legal services, maximizing individual's opportunities to represent themselves, and making effective legal services more affordable for all Americans who need them.