Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access to justice and legal aid cuts : a mismatch of concepts in the contemporary Australian and British legal landscapes / Asher Flynn and Jacqueline Hodgson -- Challenges facing the Australian legal aid system / Mary Anne Noone -- Rhyme and reason in the uncertain development of legal aid in Australia / Jeff Giddings -- The rise and decline of criminal legal aid in England and Wales / Tom Smith and Ed Cape -- A view from the bench : a judicial perspective on legal representation, court excellence, and therapeutic jurisprudence / Pauline Spencer -- Face-to-interface communication : accessing justice by video link from prison / Carolyn McKay -- The rise of "DIY" law : implications for legal aid / Kathy Laster and Ryan Kornhauser -- Community lawyers, law reform, and systemic change : is the end in sight? / Liana Buchanan -- What if there is nowhere to get advice? / James Organ and Jennifer Sigafoos -- The end of 'tea and sympathy'? The changing role of voluntary advice services in enabling 'access to justice' / Samuel Kirwan -- Reasoning a human right to legal aid / Simon Rice -- Cuts to civil legal aid and the identity crisis in lawyering : lessons from the experience of England and Wales / Natalie Byrom -- Access to what? LASPO and mediation / Rosemary Hunter, Anne Barlow, Janet Smithson, and Jan Ewing -- Insights into inequality : Women's access to legal aid in Victoria / Pasanna Mutha-Merennege -- Indigenous people and access to justice in civil and family law / Melanie Schwartz -- Austerity and justice in the age of migration / Ana Aliverti.

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