Originally introduced as a form of social welfare with near-universal eligibility, legal aid in the UK is now framed as a benefit external to the legal system and understood in primarily economic terms. This book is the first to evaluate the recent reforms of UK legal aid from a social policy perspective and assess their impact on family law courts and advocacy. Written by experts in the field, it focuses on the rise in people representing their own legal case and argues that the reforms effectively ‘delawyerise’ disputes, producing a more inquisitorial justice system and impacting the litigants, court system, staff and process. Arguing for a more holistic concept of the reforms, the book will be of relevance to students, academics, policy-makers, judges, campaigners and social workers, not just in England and Wales, but in other jurisdictions instituting cuts to their legal aid budgets, such as Australia, Scotland, France, and the Netherlands.
| ISBN: | 9781447335450 |
| Publication date: | 12th April 2017 |
| Author: | Sarah (University of Bath) Moore, Alex (University of Brighton) Newbury |
| Publisher: | Policy Press an imprint of Bristol University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 96 pages |
| Genres: |
Systems of law: civil codes / civil law Family law Central / national / federal government policies Society and culture: general Private or civil law: general Family law |