Legal Aid and the Future of Access to Justice

Professor Catrina Denvir, Dr Jacqueline Kinghan, Dr Jessica Mant , Dr Daniel Newman

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Hart Publishing
27 July 2023

Legal profession: general; Courts & procedure; Legal system: costs & funding; Private & Civil law: general works; Criminal law & procedure

This open access book 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.

Through data collected via the Legal Aid Census 2021, the book is underpinned by the accounts of over 1000 current and former legal aid lawyers. These accounts offer a detailed demography and insight into the financial, cultural and other pressures forcing lawyers to give up publicly funded work. This book combines a mixture of quantitative and qualitative analysis, allowing readers a broad appreciation of trends in the legal aid profession.

This book will equip readers with a thorough knowledge of legal aid lawyers in England and Wales, and aims to stimulate debate as to the fate of access to justice and legal aid in the future.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. licence on bloomsburycollections.com

By: Professor Catrina Denvir, Dr Jacqueline Kinghan, Dr Jessica Mant, Dr Daniel Newman
Imprint: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781509957804
ISBN 10: 1509957804
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 27 July 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. A Portrait of the Profession 3. Preparing for a Career in Legal Aid 4. Working Conditions in Legal Aid 5. Remuneration and Frees 6. Responding to Covid-19 7. Recruitment and Retention 8. Facing the Future of Legal Aid

Catrina Denvir is Associate Professor at Monash University, Australia. Jacqueline Kinghan is Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, UK. Jessica Mant is Lecturer at Monash University, Australia. Daniel Newman is Reader at Cardiff University, UK.