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After Universalism: Re-engineering Access to Justice (Journal of Law and Society Special Issues) - Softcover

 
9781405112475: After Universalism: Re-engineering Access to Justice (Journal of Law and Society Special Issues)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1405112476 ISBN 13: 9781405112475
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

As state spending on legal services has come under pressure, so too has state commitment to equal access to justice. This volume brings together experts from around the world to look at what happens when the notion that justice should be available to everyone, regardless of means, is challenged.

  • Explores the impact that increasing pressure on state spending onlegal services, and lower universal welfare provision have on the concept of "justice for all".
  • Draws together original research from leading contributors to debates about access to justice from Australia, the United States and Europe.
  • Covers unrepresented litigants, public defenders, self-help legal services, state- and market-based alternatives to legal aid, and the adaptation of common law court procedures to aboriginal culture, among other topics.
  • Emphasises the tensions between efficiency, equality and justice.
  • Published in association with the prestigious Journal of Law & Society.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Richard Moorhead is Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at Cardiff Law School. He is the co-author of More Civil Justice? The Impact of the Woolf Reforms on Pre-action Behaviour (2001), Quality and Cost: The Contracting of Civil, Non-Family Advice and Assistance Pilot (2001), Pioneers in Practice: The Community Legal Service Pioneer Partnership Research Project (2000) and Willing Blindness? OSS Complaints Handling Procedures (1999).

Pascoe Pleasence is Head of the Legal Services Research Centre at the Legal Services Commission. He is the author or co-author of Criminal Case Profiling Study: Final Report (2001), Local Legal Need (2001), Personal Injury Litigation in Practice (1998) and Profiling Civil Litigation: The Case for Research (1996).

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As state spending on legal services has come under pressure, so too has state commitment to equal access to justice. This volume brings together experts from around the world to look at what happens when the notion that justice should be available to everyone, regardless of means, is challenged by managerial and market paradigms and a general retreat from universal forms of welfare provision.

The book covers a broad range of topics, including unrepresented litigants, public defenders, self-help legal services, state- and market-based alternatives to legal aid, and the adaptation of common law court procedures to aboriginal culture. Drawing on original research from Australia, the United States and Europe, it emphasises the tensions between efficiency, equality, and justice.

Aus dem Klappentext

As state spending on legal services has come under pressure, so too has state commitment to equal access to justice. This volume brings together experts from around the world to look at what happens when the notion that justice should be available to everyone, regardless of means, is challenged by managerial and market paradigms and a general retreat from universal forms of welfare provision.

The book covers a broad range of topics, including unrepresented litigants, public defenders, self-help legal services, state- and market-based alternatives to legal aid, and the adaptation of common law court procedures to aboriginal culture. Drawing on original research from Australia, the United States and Europe, it emphasises the tensions between efficiency, equality, and justice.

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Verlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1405112476
ISBN 13 
9781405112475
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
180
Herausgeber
Moorhead Richard, Pleasence Pascoe
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