Cover Image

The legal aid market : challenges for publicly funded immigration and asylum legal representation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilding, Jo (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Policy Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Legal aid > Great Britain.
Legal assistance to immigrants > Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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