TY  - BOOK
AU  - Denvir,Catrina
AU  - Kinghan,Jacqueline
AU  - Mant,Jessica
AU  - Newman,Daniel
TI  - Legal aid and the future of access to justice
SN  - 9781509957804
AV  - KD512 .D46 2023
U1  - 347.17042 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Hart
KW  - Legal aid
KW  - England
KW  - Wales
N1  - Open access version available; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - This work provides a snapshot of the state of contemporary access to justice in England and Wales. Legal aid lawyers provide a critical function in supporting individuals to address a range of problems. These are problems that commonly intersect with issues of social justice, including crime, homelessness, domestic violence, family breakdown and educational exclusion. However, the past few decades have seen a clear retreat from the tenets of the welfare state, including, as part of this, the reduced availability of legal aid. This book examines the impact of austerity and related policies on those at the coalface of the legal profession. It documents the current state of the sector as well as the social and economic factors that make working in the legal aid profession more challenging than ever before
ER  -