Access to Justice and Legal Aid

The book provides a sound introduction to the challenges of the Australian and UK legal aid sectors. Innovators will see within the essays opportunities for innovations to ameliorate the otherwise harsh consequences of systemic changes driven by funding cuts, rather than client needs. -- Katie Miller, executive director, Legal Practice, Victoria Legal Aid * Law Institute Journal * Access to Justice & Legal Aid presents important perspectives on the crisis in unmet legal need in England, Wales and Australia, and makes a compelling case that governments at all levels should reverse the decline in support for legal aid and address the unmet legal need forthrightly. -- Douglas S Eakeley, Rutgers Law School * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books * This book is a welcome contribution to the ‘excellent but thin’ body of literature examining access to justice in Australia, and its comparative perspective adds a level of depth to that understanding. Practitioners, researchers and policymakers will all take something from this collection. -- James Farrell * Alternative Law Journal * Overall, this is an excellent and informative book. It will be of great use both to the novice wanting an introduction of contemporary issues in access to justice and legal aid and to the specialist wishing to deepen their knowledge and stimulate further discussion and debate. Perhaps most of all, it ought to be considered required reading for policy-makers in this area. -- James Thornton, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University * Legal Studies *