Colonizing law for the poor: reconfiguring legal advice in the new regulatory state

Sanderson, Peter; Sommerlad, Hilary

Colonizing law for the poor: reconfiguring legal advice in the new regulatory state

Sanderson, Peter and Sommerlad, Hilary (2011) Colonizing law for the poor: reconfiguring legal advice in the new regulatory state. In: Redefining Social Justice. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 178-200. ISBN 9780719082207

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Abstract

The chapter explores some of the tensions in New Labour rhetoric and policy in the area of legal aid. Despite the adoption of a rhetoric of increasing access to justice, policy in this area became incraeasingly dominated by cost containment and a discourse of undeserving litigants, eroding some of the key founding principles of legal aid.

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https://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/12820

Title:

Colonizing law for the poor: reconfiguring legal advice in the new regulatory state

Creators:

Sanderson, Peter and Sommerlad, Hilary

Editors:

Bryson, Valerie and Fisher, Pamela

Date:

January 2011

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