Access to Justice: Beyond the Policies and Politics of Austerity - 9781849467346

Building on a series of Economic and Social Research Council funded seminars, this volume of expert papers by UK academics and practitioners is concerned with access to civil and administrative justice in constitutional democracies, where, for the past decade, governments have reassessed their priorities for funding legal services: embracing 'new technologies' that reconfigure the delivery and very concept of legal services; cutting legal aid budgets; and introducing putative cost-cutting measures for the administration of courts, tribunals, and established systems for the delivery of legal advice and assistance. Without underplaying the future potential of technological innovation, or the need for a fair and rational system for the prioritization and funding of legal services, the book questions whether the absolutist approach to the dictates of austerity and the promise of new technologies that have driven the UK's Coalition Government policy can be squared with obligations to protect the fundamental right of access to justice in the unwritten constitution of the UK. The book will be of interest to academics in the fields of constitutional law, human rights, and socio-legal studies. [Subject: Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Human Rights Law, Socio-Legal Studies]

• | Author: Ellie Palmer, Tom Cornford, Audrey Guinchard, Yseult Marique, Tom Cornford
• | Publisher: Hart Publishing
• | Publication Date: Jan 28, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 184946734X
• | ISBN-13: 9781849467346