How are poverty and social inequality becoming entrenched through a failing civil justice system?
Dan Newman and Jon Robins combine investigative journalism and academic scholarship to examine how the lives of people suffering problems with benefits, debt, family, housing and immigration are made harder by cuts to the civil justice system.
Drawing on 150 interviews conducted with those denied justice, as well as up-to-date academic research, sector reports and news stories, they demonstrate how failure to access justice often represents a catastrophic step in the life of that person and their family.
Readable yet robust, this powerful account humanises the hostile political debates that surround legal aid issues and reveals what access to justice really means in Austerity Britain.
- ISBN10 1529213126
- ISBN13 9781529213126
- Publish Date 1 June 2021
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bristol University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 232
- Language English