Access to Justice for Disadvantaged Communities

ISBN-13: 9781447311027 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 176 str.

Marjorie Mayo; Gerald Koessl; Matthew Scott

Opis

Justice is a basic human right in all democratic doctrines, but in Britain, where welfare has faced recent market-based reforms, it s increasingly a right available only to those who can afford it.Professionals and volunteers are struggling to provide services such as legal counseling and representation to disadvantaged communities. This book explores how strategies to safeguard these vital services can strengthen, rather than undermine, the basic ethics and principles of public service provision. The authors show how such safeguarding might improve the positions of those who administer as well as those who need publicly provided legal services. Though focused on Britain, their findings reverberate to the United States and all democracies undergoing similar challenges in the public sphere."

Spis treści

Introduction: Accessing social justice in disadvantaged communities; Social justice and the welfare state; Concepts of justice and access to justice; Ethos and values; Challenges and dilemmas; Public service modernisation, restructuring and recommodification; Conflict and competition versus collaboration and planning; Public service modernisation and time; Alienation and demoralisation - or continuing labours of love?; Access to social justice for disadvantaged communities: value and values