Battle for legal aid : I'm 100% sure statistics alone won't win the battle over legal aid / Fiona Bawden -- The constitution : The pandemic and the constitution / Baroness Hale of Richmond -- Justice system : 'If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change' / Frederick Wilmot-Smith -- Justice system : what happens when a system has been starved for years on end / Chris Minnoch -- Society and justice : we would make a difference / Nic Madge -- Judiciary : disengaged from the process / A District Judge -- Legal profession : we all must speak with one voice / Young Legal Aid Lawyers -- Well-being : well-being for lawyers : feast or famine / Mary-Rachel McCabe -- Academia : greed will be all that stands in the way of change / Dr. Daniel Newman -- Law schools : there has never been a more important time to listen / Dr. Jacqueline Kinghan and Rachel Knowles -- Society and rights : let's lay the foundations we need to build the better society we want tomorrow / Jamie Burton -- EU citizens : EU citizens in the UK / Matthew Evans -- Immigration : The immigration debate / Sadat Sayeed -- Victims of trafficking : human connection / Victoria Marks -- Roma people : Roma people in Europe / Brigitta Balogh -- BAME workers : Covid-19 hits black and minority ethnic people the hardest / Marc Willers QC -- Community care : ensuring the hard-won rights of us all are not lost / Nicola Mackintosh QC (Hon) -- Mental capacity : underfunding and disconnection in health and social care / Zena Soormally Bolwig -- Mental health : human contact is important / Tam Gill and Sophy Miles -- Disabled adults : shining a light on disabled people's rights / Steve Broach and Anne-Marie Irwin -- Disabled children : already in crisis / Steve Broach and Polly Sweeney -- Transparency : remote justiceand transparency in the post-lockdown Court of Protection / Celia Kitzinger and Gill Loomes-Quinn -- Housing : the crisis of un-met housing need / Karen Buck MP -- Housing : all to fragile / Giles Peaker -- Rent : what should possession law look like? / Nick Bano -- Community activism : collectivising our individual housing problems / Izzy Köksal -- Welfare benefits : making our benefits system work for us all / Tom Royston -- Employment : in protecting jobs, you save people's homes / David Renton -- Trade unions : the horro of the crisis has galvanised the legal community to find its feet and fight / Zachary Whyte -- Maternity rights : safety for all women, without exception / Rosalind Bragg -- Discrimination : watch this space / Aubrey Ludwig -- Family : behind closed doors / Lynn Vernon -- Domestic abuse : working with the women's sector to combat domestic abuse / Cris McCurley -- School exclusions : exclusions in the new normal : an irresistable demand for change / Michael Etienne -- Youth justice : the youth justice system locks down / Kate Aubrey-Johnson -- Police stations : ring, ring... / Jacqui Appleton -- Criminal justice : racial injustice in the criminal jutice system / Melanie Simpson QC -- Criminal defense : the victims, not the recipients of justice / Rhona Friedman -- BLM protests : the Black Lives Matter Protests / Patricia Daley and Quuenie Djan -- Protests and policing : protests, policing, and the pandemic / Lydia Dagostino and Jane Cleasby -- Inquests : the culture of immunity and impunity / Deborah Coles -- Prisons : prison law in lockdown / Dr. Laura Jane -- Prisoners : waiting on the outside : prisoners in the pandemic / Charlotte Henry -- Immigration detention : unable to breathe, locked down and locked in / Toufique Hossain -- Miscarriages of justice : pandemic or not, we need to talk about miscarriages of justice / Jon Robbins and Matt Foot -- Future of legal aid : r is for recovery / Rohini Teather -- Community justice : out of the shop front / Sue James -- Responses : lawyers must play their part and put themselves at the service of the movement for change / Helen Mowatt -- Postscript : undated / Carol Storer OBE.

"Justice Matters is a collection of essays which together tell a powerful story of the impact of COVID-19, the responses to it, and the hope for change. It seeks to document, in some small way, the effects of the pandemic viewed through the lens of the justice system. We are living through an unprecedented public health crisis. As the pandemic gathered pace, we started to see much more clearly that those in food poverty, from BAME backgrounds, in poor housing, insecure employment, the homeless, the elderly and the disabled were the worst affected. The virus exposed the underlying structural health, race and class inequality in British society. We saw that a decade of austerity had eviscerated health and social care and public services and plunged the justice system into crisis. But we also saw hope and what can be achieved if there is the political will. The homeless were housed and those seeking asylum were released from immigration detention. There was a stay on possession cases and a moratorium on benefit sanctions. Ordinary people looked out for each other in ways that we would not previously have imagined. We have worked together and shown what is possible through campaigning, community activism and public pressure, as well as legal challenges. The pandemic presents an opportunity for social-justice lawyers to catch the attention of the public, a chance to tell the stories we witness every day and to create solutions that help to build a more just and equal society. Justice Matters provides perspectives from frontline workers in community groups and legal observers at the Black Lives Matter protests, lawyers working with the most vulnerable throughout the pandemic, academia, members of the judiciary and parliament and Baroness Hale of Richmond on the constitution. Justice Matters is not intended as an end in itself but as the beginning and as a component of a larger discussion about the future, about equality and about justice." -- Provided by publisher.

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