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The Legal Aid Market : Challenges for Publicly Funded Immigration and Asylum Legal Representation

Presenting a rare picture of the barristers, solicitors and caseworkers practising immigration law in charities and private firms, this book offers fresh thinking on what has gone wrong in the legal aid market. In doing so, this book examines supply and demand, challenges existing legal aid policy a...

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Autor principal: Wilding, Jo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Front Cover -- The Legal Aid Market: Challenges for Publicly Funded Immigration and Asylum Legal Representation -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of terms and abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Research basis -- The system -- 2 Evolution of immigration law, legal aid and lawyers -- Emergence of the immigration legal profession -- Development of legal aid: from autonomy to audit -- Early phase (1949-70) -- Expansion phase (1970-88) -- Early control phase (1988-99) -- Local planning phase (2000-06) -- Carter phase (2006-10) 
505 0 |a Austerity phase (from 2010) -- Why history matters -- Hostility as a policy driver -- 'Humans and econs' -- A whole-system perspective -- Policy debris -- 3 Business of Asylum Justice case studies -- Private firms -- Not-for-profits -- Refugee Legal Centre/Refugee and Migrant Justice -- Publicly funded Immigration Bar -- Conclusion -- 4 Broken swings and rusty roundabouts -- Fixed fees and the escape threshold -- Risk -- Payment lag and cash-flow crisis -- Transaction costs -- Economies of scale -- Conclusion -- 5 New framework for demand -- Two stories -- Ana's story -- Bella's story 
505 0 |a Four types of demand -- Potential-client demand -- In-case demand -- Value demand -- Failure demand -- Failure demand from Home Office -- Failure demand from Legal Aid Agency -- Failure demand from lawyers -- Failure demand from system incompatibilities -- Cost consequences of demand -- Demand- and incentive-responsiveness -- 6 Droughts and deserts -- Survival strategies and client access -- Reliance on subsidy -- Prioritisation decisions and minimisation of loss -- Solicitors and caseworkers -- Barristers -- Emergence of droughts and deserts -- 7 No Choice, no Voice, no Exit -- Choice -- Voice 
505 0 |a Command and Control versus Trust -- Poor quality in the market -- Development of a 'lemon market' -- Conclusion -- 8 Why we need to think about systems -- Conclusion -- Peer-review criteria -- civil files -- C. The Work/Assistance -- Appendix: Independent peer-review criteria and guidance -- Peer-review criteria -- civil files -- C. The Work/Assistance -- References -- Index -- Back Cover 
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