Legal Aid Lawyers and the Quest for Justice

by Daniel Newman

This book examines the state of access to criminal justice by considering the health of the lawyer-client relationship under legal aid. In the largest study of its kind for some two decades, ethnographic fieldwork is used to gain a fresh perspective upon the interaction that lies at the heart of the criminal justice system's equality of arms. The research produces two contradictory messages; in interview, lawyers claim a positive relationship with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849464332
• ISBN13: 9781849464338
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"