| Description |
x, 246 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Part one: Overview Professional conflict and welfarism 1. Legal needs and the origins of contemporary legal aid -- 2. The Whitlam years: Public aid and social democratic vision -- 3. Professional reactions, mobilisation and division -- 4. Fraserism, conflict and State commissions. Part two: Overview Professional change, neo-liberalism and the state 5. Growth, consolidation and crisis -- 6. From providers to purchasers and suppliers -- 7. Community legal centres: Autonomous and alternative. Conclusion: Professionalism and Australian legal aid in retrospect |
| Summary |
Provides a comprehensive account of the modern Australian legal aid system. Examines the reaction of the legal profession to conflicts and debates about legal aid policy and services and the way in which this has both reflected and accentuated major shifts in the social and political structure of the profession itself |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Legal aid -- Australia.
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Lawyers -- Australia -- Interviews.
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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| Author |
Tomsen, Stephen.
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| ISBN |
9781862876163 paperback |
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1862876169 paperback |
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