The Legal Aid Market: Challenges for Publicly Funded Immigration and Asylum Legal Representation

Even though legal aid is available for people seeking asylum, there is uneven access to advice across Britain. Based on empirical research, this book offers fresh thinking on what has gone wrong in the legal aid market. It presents a rare picture of the barristers, solicitors and caseworkers practising immigration law in charities and private firms. In doing so, this book examines supply and demand and illuminates what constitutes high-quality legal aid work/provision, subsequent conflicts with financial rationality and how practitioners resolve these issues. Challenging existing legal aid policy, this book presents innovative insights to ensure public service markets around the globe function well for all those involved.

Author: Jo Wilding
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 03/14/2023
Pages: 212
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9781447358503

About the Author
Jo Wilding is an ESRC postdoctoral fellow in the School of Applied Social Science at the University of Brighton.