Delivering Family Justice in Late Modern Society in the wake of Legal Aid Reform

Buch | Hardcover

178 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-21427-9 (ISBN)

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Life after LASPO: where can people seeking legal information, advice or help with family or welfare problems turn? Forming a wide ranging account from the perspective before LASPO came into effect this title looks at the expected results the withdrawal of legal aid for family cases will have in the years to come.

Legal aid for family cases in private law, mainly divorce and separation, where the state is not directly involved as it is in public law cases where there are issues of domestic violence or neglect or abuse of children, came to an abrupt end together with help for welfare and immigration cases on April 1 2013 when the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) came into effect. This book presents an account of the wide ranging problems which the researchers and practitioners expected to ensue. Sadly, their fears have been realised in many areas of legal help and advice. The National Audit Office was to take the view in 2014 that although the Ministry of Justice had succeeded in making considerable savings in the cause of austerity that they had failed to investigate or understand the impact of these cuts on the individuals concerned and society as a whole. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law.

Mavis Maclean has carried out empirical research in family justice for many years, and founded the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy with John Eekelaar in Oxford in 2001. She has worked as an academic adviser to the Ministry of Justice, and edits the JSWFL with Helen Stalford.

Introduction: Late modern justice for the family 1. Legal aid reform: its impact on family law 2. Analysing the economic justification for the reforms to social welfare and family law legal aid 3. Self-represented litigants: the overlooked and unintended consequence of legal aid reform 4. Changing the immigration rules and withdrawing the ‘currency’ of legal aid: the impact of LASPO 2012 on migrants and their families 5. The impact of cuts in legal aid funding on charities 6. Back for the future: a client centred analysis of social welfare and family law provision 7. Arbitration in financial dispute resolution: the final step to reconstructing the default(s) and exception(s)? 8. When legal rights are not a reality: do individuals know their rights and how can we tell?

Erscheinungsdatum	08.02.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht
ISBN-10	1-138-21427-2 / 1138214272
ISBN-13	978-1-138-21427-9 / 9781138214279
Zustand	Neuware