The Transformation Of Legal Aid

Author : Francis Regan
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198265894

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The Transformation of Legal Aid by Francis Regan Pdf

Publicly funded legal aid has undergone rapid change in this century. Developing from charity to large scale, publicly funded schemes, legal aid flourished in many western countries in the 1960s and 1970s. But, during the 1980s governments began to lose faith in publicly funded legal aid. In the 1990s major funding and eligibility cuts have occurred in Sweden, England and Wales, the USA, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands. To answer the need for a better understanding of the extraordinary rise and fall of legal aid, this book brings together contributions from the leading international scholars in the field. Researchers from north America, Europe and Australia examine the origins of modern legal aid, analyse its recent rapid decline and consider its likely future. This collection of original studies does not, however, merely describe legal aids changing fortunes. The contributors also apply legal and social science perspectives to analyse and theorise about legalaid. In particular, rather than describe developments in individual societies, the contributors compare legal aid across societies to develop important insights including legal aids relationship with the legal profession, welfare states and legal families. This book will be embraced by all those interested in legal aid.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Raman Mittal
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Legal aid
ISBN : 9788192120423

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Author : Olaf Halvorsen Rønning,Ole Hammerslev
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Asher Flynn,Jacqueline Hodgson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Moore, Sarah,Newbury, Alex
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781447335450

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Legal Aid in Crisis by Moore, Sarah,Newbury, Alex Pdf

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.

Author : Great Britain. Legal Aid Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Legal aid
ISBN : OCLC:315402136

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Legal Aid Guide by Great Britain. Legal Aid Board Pdf

Author : M. J. Trebilcock,Lorne Sossin,A. J. Duggan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Emery A. Brownell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Legal aid
ISBN : UOM:39015011940924

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Legal Aid in the United States by Emery A. Brownell Pdf

Author : Felice Batlan,Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Jeet Singh Mann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000770223

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Comparative Legal Aid Systems and India by Jeet Singh Mann Pdf

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the functioning and challenges of the legal aid system in India. The legal aid system was set up to promote the interests of the economically weaker sections of society that did not have equitable access to judicial systems. However, the system has been largely unsuccessful in delivering justice. Drawing on empirical data from 18 states and 36 districts in India, the book highlights the institutional setbacks that plague the legal aid system and urges us to take cognizance of the hindrances faced by the beneficiaries in availing of these services. It acknowledges the gaps that exist in the governance of the legal aid system in India at the grassroots level and suggests approaches and ways to address these roadblocks to deliver free, swift, and economical access to justice to the poor legal aid beneficiaries. An important critical study of the commitment and competence of legal aid counsels in India, this volume will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of law, Indian law, constitutional law, political science, comparative law, law and gender, and social work.

Author : Asher Flynn,Jacqueline Hodgson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509900862

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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 : Jerry Van Hoy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997-08-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313035326

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Franchise Law Firms and the Transformation of Personal Legal Services by Jerry Van Hoy Pdf

As lawyers, legal scholars, and academics throughout the social sciences debate the future of legal work and the legal profession itself, they turn their attention inevitably to the rise of the franchise law firms. Founded in response to the changing market for legal services, franchise law firms have grown dramatically in recent years, but at what cost to clients and lawyers alike? This book focuses on how professional organizations (and the related work experience) are influenced by economics and the way various firms have excelled by mass producing a basic menu of services—by placing their offices at strategic locations, hiring inexperienced new law school graduates, and using television and other hard-sell means to attract clients. Van Hoy's impeccable sociological research, presented in a clear, readable, anecdotal style, will be fascinating and useful reading, not only for members of the legal profession and their academic colleagues, but also for aspiring lawyers and their future clients. Van Hoy shows that franchise law firms are a competitive innovation in the market for personal legal services—an innovation that has served to standardize lawyers' work and to dehumanize lawyers themselves. Precisely because the work of attorneys can be standardized and mass produced, a finding that may astonish some and dismay others, attorneys may be even more alienated from their chosen profession than their clients suspect. Van Hoy analyzes these matters and captures the broader context in which prepackaged firms operate; indeed, he compares franchised attorneys to lawyers in different types of firms who are also competing for the same business. Van Hoy is convinced that many attorneys are not only alienated but are ripe for unionization. He shows that collegiality no longer insulates attorneys from the pressures and dissatisfactions of the outside world, a research finding that in itself may seriously challenge prevailing viewpoints and shake confidence in the belief that legal work is not just a profession, but also a calling.

Author : Alan Uzelac,Cornelis Hendrik (Remco) van Rhee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319973586

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Transformation of Civil Justice by Alan Uzelac,Cornelis Hendrik (Remco) van Rhee Pdf

National civil justice systems are deeply rooted in national legal cultures and traditions. However, in the past few decades they have been increasingly influenced by integration processes at the regional, supra-national and international level. As a by-product of the emergence of economic and political unions and globalisation processes there is pressure to harmonise or even unify the way in which national civil justice systems operate. In an attempt to create a ‘genuine area of justice’, new unified procedures are being developed, which operate in parallel with national civil procedures, and sometimes even strive to replace them. As a reaction to the forces that endeavour to harmonise and unify procedural laws and practices, an opposing trend is gaining momentum: one that insists on diversity and pluralism of national civil procedures. This book focuses on the evolution of procedural reforms in various jurisdictions and the ongoing transformation of national civil justice systems.

Author : Larry Taman,National Council of Welfare (Canada)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Legal aid
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044018278

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The Legal Services Controversy by Larry Taman,National Council of Welfare (Canada) Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264582880

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Developing Effective Online Dispute Resolution in Latvia by OECD Pdf

This report assesses the use of online dispute resolution (ODR) in Latvia. It looks at the country’s efforts to modernise its justice system and develop dispute resolution mechanisms, identifies areas for improvement in line with the OECD ODR Framework, and provides examples of the application of ODR in other countries.