Table of Contents

1. Access to Justice and Legal Aid Cuts: A Mismatch of Concepts in the Contemporary Australian and British Legal Landscapes
Asher Flynn and Jacqueline Hodgson
2. Challenges Facing the Australian Legal Aid System
Mary Anne Noone
3. Rhyme and Reason in the Uncertain Development of Legal Aid in Australia
Jeff Giddings
4. The Rise and Decline of Criminal Legal Aid in England and Wales
Tom Smith and Ed Cape
5. A View from the Bench: A Judicial Perspective on Legal Representation, Court Excellence and Therapeutic Jurisprudence
Pauline Spencer
6. Face-to-interface Communication: Accessing Justice by Video Link from Prison
Carolyn McKay
7. The Rise of ‘DIY’ Law: Implications for Legal Aid
Kathy Laster and Ryan Kornhauser
8. Community Lawyers, Law Reform and Systemic Change: Is the End in Sight?
Liana Buchanan
9. What if There Is Nowhere to Get Advice?
James Organ and Jennifer Sigafoos
10. The End of ‘Tea and Sympathy’? The Changing Role of Voluntary Advice Services in Enabling ‘Access to Justice’
Samuel Kirwan
11. Reasoning a Human Right to Legal Aid
Simon Rice
12. Cuts to Civil Legal Aid and the Identity Crisis in Lawyering: Lessons from the Experience of England and Wales
Natalie Byrom
13. Access to What? LASPO and Mediation
Rosemary Hunter, Anne Barlow, Janet Smithson and Jan Ewing
14. Insights into Inequality: Women’s Access to Legal Aid in Victoria
Pasanna Mutha-Merennege
15. Indigenous People and Access to Justice in Civil and Family Law
Melanie Schwartz
16. Austerity and Justice in the Age of Migration
Ana Aliverti

Promotional Information

An important comparative contribution to the topical issue of legal aid funding in the UK and Australia.

About the Author

Asher Flynn is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology within the School of Social Sciences at Monash University.
Jacqueline Hodgson is Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Justice Centre in the School of Law, University of Warwick.

Reviews

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.
*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.
*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.
*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.
*Legal Studies*