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Author : Emery A. Brownell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Legal aid
ISBN : UOM:39015011940924
Author : Jim Newton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1594482705
One of the most acclaimed and best political biographies of its time, Justice for All is a monumental work dedicated to a complicated and principled figure that will become a seminal work of twentieth-century U.S. history. In Justice for All, Jim Newton, an award-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, brings readers the first truly comprehensive consideration of Earl Warren, the politician-turned-Chief Justice who refashioned the place of the court in American life through landmark Supreme Court cases whose names have entered the common parlance -- Brown v. Board of Education, Griswold v. Connecticut, Miranda v. Arizona, to name just a few. Drawing on unmatched access to government, academic, and private documents pertaining to Warren's life and career, Newton explores a fascinating angle of U.S. Supreme Court history while illuminating both the public and the private Warren.
Author : Earl Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1045 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780313357077
For over a century, many have struggled to turn the Constitution's prime goal "to establish Justice" into reality for Americans who cannot afford lawyers through civil legal aid. This book explains how and why. American statesman Sargent Shriver called the Legal Services Program the "most important" of all the War on Poverty programs he started; American Bar Association president Edward Kuhn said its creation was the most important development in the history of the legal profession. Earl Johnson Jr., a former director of the War on Poverty's Legal Services Program, provides a vivid account of the entire history of civil legal aid from its inception in 1876 to the current day. The first to capture the full story of the dramatic, ongoing struggle to bring equal justice to those unable to afford a lawyer, this monumental three-volume work covers the personalities and events leading to a national legal aid movement—and decades later, the federal government's entry into the field, and its creation of a unique institution, an independent Legal Services Corporation, to run the program. The narrative also covers the landmark court victories the attorneys won and the political controversies those cases generated, along with the heated congressional battles over the shape and survival of the Legal Services Corporation. In the final chapters, the author assesses the current state of civil legal aid and its future prospects in the United States.
Author : Peter Soar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004478794
This book is a worldwide survey of legal aid containing more than seventy responses from ministries of justice, attorney generals, law societies, bar councils and individual lawyers to a detailed questionnaire. The results, set out here in summary form, are probably the most complete survey of its kind since the Lane and Hillyard edition of the Directory in 1985. The Editor of The New International Directory of Legal Aid, former legal aid solicitor Peter Soar, says: `In preparing this new edition I have learnt from previous users that the Directory is a valuable aid for Legal Aid Boards and law schools as well as individual lawyers.' In these pages you will find the ground work of legal aid systems in some of the most diverse legal jurisdictions from the Common Law countries of England and the Commonwealth to those which employ the approach of the Napoleonic Code. Here are systems adapted to the needs of the inhabitants of Caribbean islands, central European and Baltic states, emerging African peoples, the successors to ancient Indian empires, and countries of the Pacific Rim. The different forms of legal aid are of interest to practitioners and academics but the claims of the book go further than that. Just and fair societies depend on the maintenance of the rule of law. If the legal system, and in the last resort, the courts themselves are not within the reach of all citizens then talk of their rights is empty. If poor, weak, or powerless members of society are denied access to the courts because of lack of means, or if that access depends on the willingness of some lawyers to undertake cases pro bono, it is difficult to argue that in that state human rights are any more than forms rather than reality. If lawyers themselves exchange their independence for involvement in the very process of litigation (so-called `no win, no fee'), can it be said that freedom is not compromised? Here the reader can judge what in his or her opinion is the standing in these debates of each of the jurisdictions surveyed, with the help of editorial comments and the Editor's Introduction.
Author : Felice Batlan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107084537
This book re-examines fundamental assumptions about the American legal profession and the boundaries between "professional" lawyers, "lay" lawyers, and social workers. Putting legal history and women's history in dialogue, it details the history of the origins and development of free legal aid for the poor in the United States.
Author : Asher Flynn,Jacqueline Hodgson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509900855
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 : Olaf Halvorsen Rønning,Ole Hammerslev
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319466842
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 : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Civil procedure
ISBN : PSU:000065521717
Author : National Conference of Legal Aid Bureaus and Societies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Legal aid
ISBN : OSU:32435058683608
Author : Reginald Heber Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Justice, Administration of
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044018088
Author : United States. Office of Economic Opportunity. Community Actiion Programs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Government attorneys
ISBN : UIUC:30112106554972
Author : Trevor C.W. Farrow,Lesley A. Jacobs
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774863605
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 : Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789287190956
Access to justice is a vital element in the democratic process and one of the basic principles of the rule of law. Access to legal aid – the provision of legal advice, assistance and/or representation at either no cost or subject to a financial contribution – is crucial to ensure access to justice. The guidelines on the efficiency and the effectiveness of legal aid schemes in the areas of civil and administrative law were adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 31 March 2021. The guidelines take into account existing international, European and national standards relating to legal aid, and are built on the expertise of the European Committee on Legal Co-operation (CDCJ) in legal aid policy and practice. They are designed to serve as a practical guide to support the implementation of existing standards, without necessarily changing organisational frameworks in place, in order to strengthen national legal aid schemes in the areas of civil and administrative law. The guidelines include generic solutions on issues such as early intervention with the help of legal aid systems (preliminary legal aid), quality assurance mechanisms in legal aid schemes, means and merits testing, organisation of legal aid system and availability of legal aid providers, and data collection. Further guidance is available in the accompanying explanatory memorandum of the guidelines. This publication is aimed at decision-makers and practitioners working to develop and improve the functioning of legal aid schemes at national level. It also aims to support member States’ efforts towards the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development vision of a “just, equitable, tolerant, open and socially inclusive world in which the needs of the most vulnerable are met”, and notably SDG 16.3’s promises to ensure equal access to justice for all.
Author : Edson Leone Whitney,Gladys Louise Palmer,Glenn L. Tibbott,Mary Theresa Waggaman,Paul F. Gemmill,Reginald Heber Smith,Swen Kjaer,United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Accidents
ISBN : LCCN:l26000032
Author : Johannes Rehmke,Benjamin Fossett Lock
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019511354
A practical guide to providing legal assistance to those in need, written by Benjamin Fossett Lock and Johannes Rehmke. Originally published in the early 20th century, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the legal system and offers advice on how to navigate it successfully while representing low-income clients. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.