An interdisciplinary study of the law's influence on homecare work and the experiences of care workers in the UK. Drawing together interviews with analysis of legal documents and media reports, this highly topical text unpicks assumptions about care workers and identifies aspects of the law that are problematic in this work context.

A critical, far-reaching socio-legal account of the contemporary landscape of family dispute resolution and the shift towards out-of-court settlements in the context of neoliberal governance. Based on findings from an extensive research project, this insightful study illuminates ongoing debates surrounding the de-legalisation of family disputes.

Nobody's Law shows how people - who are disappointed, disenchanted, and outraged about the justice system - gradually move away from law. While previous studies emphasize the law's hegemony and argue that it's `all over', Hertogh shows that legal proliferation makes it harder for people to know, and subsequently identify with, the law.

This book uses a case study of a low-cost home ownership initiative at the margins of renting and owning provided by social landlords - known as shared ownership - to challenge everyday assumptions held about the `social' and the `legal' in property.

How do ordinary people experience and make sense of the informal justice system? Creutzfeldt shows that the everyday relationship that people have with the informal justice system is shaped by their experiences and expectations of the formal legal system and its agents.