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The future of social justice in Britain
— a new mission for the community legal service | | Author(s) | Jonathan M Stein |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 2001 |
| Pages | 44 pp (CASEpaper 48) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. |
| Keywords | Legal aid ; Rights [elderly] ; Social policy ; Law. |
| Annotation | There is a disjuncture in the New Labour Government between reorganisation of the Legal Aid system introduced in the Access to Justice Act 1999, and the concurrent pursuit of progressive anti-poverty, social exclusion, community regeneration, and human rights social policies. The failure of the newly created Community Legal Service (CLS) to incorporate these policies reveals contradictions in the Third Way's efforts to reconcile private market, managerial efficiencies with the goals of advancing social justice. It is argued that this failure to adopt a social justice mission for the reformed legal aid and advice system shows the limited vision of these reforms, and defines an unfinished agenda for a second term Labour Government. This paper suggests what would constitute a social justice mission for the CLS. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010905225 B |
| Classmark | JVA: IKR: TM2: VR |
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