1st Edition

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

Edited By Mavis Maclean Copyright 2017
180 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

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.... Read more

Introduction: Late modern justice for the family
Mavis Maclean and Helen Stalford

1. Legal aid reform: its impact on family law
Stephen Cobb

2. Analysing the economic justification for the reforms to social welfare and family law legal aid
Graham Cookson

3. Self-represented litigants: the overlooked and unintended consequence of legal aid reform
Chris Bevan

4. Changing the immigration rules and withdrawing the ‘currency’ of legal aid: the impact of LASPO 2012 on migrants and their families
F. Meyler and S. Woodhouse

5. The impact of cuts in legal aid funding on charities
Debra Morris and Warren Barr

6. Back for the future: a client centred analysis of social welfare and family law provision
Alexy Buck and Marisol Smith

7. Arbitration in financial dispute resolution: the final step to reconstructing the default(s) and exception(s)?
Lucinda Ferguson

8. When legal rights are not a reality: do individuals know their rights and how can we tell?
Catrina Denvir, Nigel J. Balmer and Pascoe Pleasence

Biography

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.