Transforming lives: law and social processThis edited collection brings together a selection of papers originally presented at the Legal Services Research Centre's tenth anniversary international research conference. The papers, drawn from three continents, provide an insight into how people experience the law, the extent of impact of legal problems, the reasons people sometimes take no action to resolve problems, methods of service delivery, the integration of legal and health services and forms of funding legal services. |
Contents
Law and Social Process | 1 |
Access to Justice and Disadvantaged Communities | 9 |
Civil Justice Problems and the Disability and Health Status | 44 |
Further Evidence of the Social Economic | 67 |
They all come in the one door The transformative potential | 93 |
Everyday Problems and | 112 |
Technology is the Answer But What Was the Question? | 133 |
Money Damage Claims in Northern Ireland | 161 |
The Impact of | 186 |
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