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• 1. The Legal Profession in English Politics
• 2. An Unlikely Revolutionary
• 3. Halting the Tide
• 4. Reflecting Society?
• 5. Defending the Temple
• 6. Controlling Competition
• 7. Conservatives Cut Legal Aid Costs
• 8. Labour Ends Legal Aid As We Know It
• 9. Serving Two Masters: The Dilemma of Self-Regulation
• 10. Governing a Fractious Profession
• 11. The Future of Legal Professionalism.
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Toward the end of the twentieth century, English lawyers enjoyed widespread respect and prosperity. They had survived criticism by practitioners and academics and a Royal Commission enquiry, but the final decade witnessed profound changes. First the Conservatives sought to apply laissez-faire principles to the profession. Then Labour transformed the legal aid scheme it had created half a century earlier. At the same time, the profession confronted cumulative changes in higher education and women's aspirations, internal and external competition, and dramatic fluctuations in demand. This book analyses the politics of professionalism during that tumultuous decade, the struggles among individual producers (barristers, solicitors, foreign lawyers, accountants) their associations, consumers (individual and corporate, public and private) and the state to shape the market for legal services by deploying economic, political and rhetorical resources (including changing conceptions of professionalism). The profession had to respond to a greatly increased production of law graduates and the desire of lawyer mothers (and also fathers) to raise their families. It had to replace exclusivity with efforts to reflect the larger society (class, race, gender). The Bar needed to address challenges to its exclusive rights of audience from both solicitors and employed barristers and decide whether to retaliate by permitting direct access, thereby compromising its claim to be a consulting profession. Solicitors had to reconcile their invocation of market principles against the Bar with their resistance to corporate conveyancing and multidisciplinary practices. Government had to restrain a demand-led legal aid scheme; practitioners and their associations sought to pressure the government to expand eligibility and raise remuneration rates. Divisions within both branches so compromised self-regulation and governance that the government even threatened to deprive lawyers of those essential elements of professionalism. These challenges have begun a transformation of the legal profession that will shape its evolution throughout the twenty-first century.
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This book by one of the leading international legal academics is a study of the origins, development, current state and likely future of the legal profession in England and Wales. Based on a review of existing sources, as well as original research, this book provides a wide range of facts on all aspects of the legal profession: solicitors and barristers; professional associations; legal education and academia; and links with the judiciary and politics. Who are the lawyers? What are the structures of their practices, and what are the links between the different groups? What do they earn? How are they regulated? How are they responding to the new pressures in modern society?
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Bishop Thomas de Lisle was leader of a local gang of thugs who terrorised the people of East Anglia. This book tells his story, creating a picture of his activities, and exploring the motives for De Lisle's involvement in crime.
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• Foreword / Alison Russell
• Introduction / The Rt. Hon. Lady Justice Dorrian
• 'Moving at a pace' : towards a new approach to vulnerability in courts and tribunals? / Penny Cooper
• Cartesian perfection : the route out of failure / John Gillen
• Bringing the court closer to the person with disability : judicial exemption from the Equality Act and interference with reasonable adjustments for litigants with physical disabilities / Anton van Dellen
• Judges and lawyers : getting it wrong about the disabled for all these years? / John Horan
• Challenges in defining and identifying a suspect's vulnerability in criminal proceedings : what's in a name and who's to blame? / Lore Mergaerts, Dirk Van Daele, Geert Vervaeke
• Caught by language : the language competence of young offenders and the implications for the (Dutch) youth justice system / K.G.M. van Dijk-Fleetwood-Bird
• Justice denied? : the experience of unrepresented defendants in the criminal courts / Penelope Gibbs
• Anunga 40 years on : rights remain limited for indigenous suspects in the Northern Territory of Australia / Felicity Gerry and David Woodroffe
• The effects of intersectionality : women with learning disabilities, difficulties and autism in the criminal justice system / Clare S. Allely, Toni Wood, & Christopher Gillberg
• Confusion and communication in deaf cases : towards a model of best practice / Sue O'Rourke, Chantelle de la Croix, Noel Traynor and Robert Grieve
• Trauma and victim participation in the criminal process / Louise Ellison and Vanessa E Munro
• The pre-trial position of vulnerable victims of crime in Ireland / Alan Cusack
• Balancing accessibility and authority : towards an integrated approach to vulnerability in the criminal courts / Jessica Jacobson
• Advocating PEACE : will it make people cross? / Ray Bull and Andy Griffiths
• Postscript / Linda Hunting.

This is the second volume of this kind. The first, 'Addressing Vulnerability in Justice Systems', focussed on identifying vulnerability in international justice systems. This volume presents some of the challenges that exist in achieving sufficient access to justice for vulnerable people, primarily in criminal and family proceedings and provides international comparisons of best practice. This book, following on from The Advocate's Gateway Conference in 2017, consists of a selection of papers from presentations at the conference. The primary focus is an international comparison of vulnerability in justice systems and issues surrounding access to justice for vulnerable witnesses and parties. The book presents the latest developments in a constantly developing area of law and provides details of the many different challenges which advocates, judges and vulnerable witnesses and victims encounter in justice systems. It also offers international comparisons of best practice. The discussions in 'Access to Justice for Vulnerable People' will provide academics and practitioners across a variety of disciplines an insight in to topics of central importance to the fairness and efficiency of court processes. Expert contributors offer an international perspective and research-informed practical advice for lawyers, researchers, judges and policy makers.
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