After Universalism
Re-engineering Access to Justice
Journal of Law and Society Special Issues
As state spending on legal services has come under pressure, so too has state commitment to equal access to justice. This volume brings together experts from around the world to look at what happens when the notion that justice should be available to everyone, regardless of means, is challenged.
* Explores the impact that increasing pressure on state spending onlegal services, and lower universal welfare provision have on the concept of "justice for all".
* Draws together original research from leading contributors to debates about access to justice from Australia, the United States and Europe.
* Covers unrepresented litigants, public defenders, self-help legal services, state- and market-based alternatives to legal aid, and the adaptation of common law court procedures to aboriginal culture, among other topics.
* Emphasises the tensions between efficiency, equality and justice.
* Published in association with the prestigious Journal of Law & Society.
Moorhead (Cardiff Law School) and Pascoe Pleasence (Legal Services
Research Centre).
2. Adversarial Mythologies: Policy Assumptions and Research
Evidence in Family Law: Rosemary Hunter (Professor of Law and
Director, Socio-Legal Research Centre, Law School, Griffith
University).
3. Large Scale Map or the A-Z? The Place of Self Help Services
in Legal Aid: Jeff Giddings (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law,
Griffith University) and Michael Robertson (Senior Lecturer,
Faculty of Law, Griffith University).
4. Targeting Legal Need: First Findings of the LSRC Periodic
Survey: Pascoe Pleasence (Legal Services research Centre), Hazel
Genn (Faculty of Laws, University College, University of London),
Nigel J. Balmer, Alexy Buck and Aoife O'Grady (all Legal
Services Research Centre).
5. Legal Expenses Insurance - Germany's Funding
Concept As A Role Model: Matthias Kilian (Director of the Soldan
Institute For Law Practice Management, Senior Research Fellow,
Faculty of Law, University of Cologne).
6. The Law and the Desert: Alternative Methods of Delivering
Justice: Louise Anderson (Native Title Registrar, Federal Court of
Australia).
7. The Swedish Legal Services Policy Remix: The Shift from
Public Legal Aid to Private Legal Expense Insurance: Francis Regan
(Senior Lecturer in Legal Studies, Flinders University Adelaide,
Australia).
8. Changing Patterns of Legal Representation in Divorce: From
Lawyers to Pro Se: Lynn M. Mather.
9. Evaluating the Scottish Public Defence Solicitors'
Office: Tamara Goriely (former Senior Research Fellow, Institute of
Advanced Legal Studies, University of London).
10. The Contingency Legal Aid Fund: A Third Way to Finance
Personal Injury Litigation: David Capper (Reader in Law,
Queen's University, Belfast).
of Advanced Legal Studies at Cardiff Law School. He is the
co-author of More Civil Justice? The Impact of the Woolf Reforms
on Pre-action Behaviour (2001), Quality and Cost: The
Contracting of Civil, Non-Family Advice and Assistance Pilot
(2001), Pioneers in Practice: The Community Legal Service
Pioneer Partnership Research Project (2000) and Willing
Blindness? OSS Complaints Handling Procedures (1999).
Pascoe Pleasence is Head of the Legal Services Research
Centre at the Legal Services Commission. He is the author or
co-author of Criminal Case Profiling Study: Final Report
(2001), Local Legal Need (2001), Personal Injury
Litigation in Practice (1998) and Profiling Civil
Litigation: The Case for Research (1996).
