The Legal Aid Market: Challenges for Publicly Funded Immigration and Asylum Legal Representation
Jo Wilding
Abstract
Even though legal aid is available for people seeking asylum, there is uneven access to advice across Britain. Based on empirical research, this book offers fresh thinking on what has gone wrong in the legal aid market. It presents a rare picture of the barristers, solicitors and caseworkers practising immigration law in charities and private firms. In doing so, this book examines supply and demand and illuminates what constitutes high-quality legal aid work/provision, subsequent conflicts with financial rationality and how practitioners resolve these issues. Challenging existing legal aid pol ... More
Keywords: Legal aid, Legal advice, Access to justice, Asylum and immigration, Legal aid market, Marketisation, Public services
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 | Print ISBN-13: 9781447358497 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: May 2022 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447358497.001.0001 |
