After Universalism: Re-engineering Access to JusticeISBN: 978-1-4051-1247-5
Paperback
180 pages
June 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.