Legal needs and legal services

Bradley, K., Lawyers for the Poor: Legal Advice, Voluntary Action and Citizenship in England, 1890-1990 (Manchester, University of Manchester Press, 2019)

Davis, G., Donkor, K., and Morgan, R., Ethnic Minorities’ Legal Needs and Perceptions of Legal Services: Report of a Pilot Investigation for the Law Society (London, The Law Society, 1993)

Department for Constitutional Affairs and the Law Centres Federation, Legal and Advice Services: A Pathway to Regeneration (London, Department for Constitutional Affairs, 2004)

Genn, H., Paths to Justice (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 1999)

Kempson, E., Legal Advice and Assistance (London, Policy Studies Institute, 1989)

Legal Action Group, A Strategy for Justice: Publicly Funded Legal Services in the 1990s (London, Legal Action Group, 1992)

Legal Services Commission, Making Legal Rights a Reality (London, Legal Services Commission, 2005)

Legal Services Research Centre, Causes of Action: civil law and social justice. The final report of the first LSRC survey of justiciable problems (2nd edn, London, Legal Services Commission, 2006)

Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct, Setting Standards for Community Legal Services (London, Lord Chancellor’s Department, 1999)

Palmer, E. and others (eds) Access to Justice: Beyond the Policies and Politics of Austerity (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2016)

Smith, R., and Paterson, A., Face to Face Legal Services and their Alternatives (Centre for Professional Legal Studies, Strathclyde University, 2014)

Steele, J., and Seargeant, J., Access to Legal Services: The Contribution of Alternative Approaches (London, Policy Studies Institute, 1999)

Legal aid

Edwards, A., and Beaumont, C., Criminal Costs: Legal Aid Costs in the Criminal Courts (2nd ed) (London, Legal Action Group, 2019)

Goriely, T., and Das Gupta, P. (with Bowles, R.), Breaking the Code: The Impact of Legal Aid Reforms on General Civil Litigation (London, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2001)

Hudson, A., Towards a Just Society: Law, Labour and Legal Aid (London, Continuum International Publishing Group, 1999)

Ling, V., James, S., Storer, C., and Edwards, A, (eds) LAG: Legal Aid Handbook 2020/21 (London, Legal Action Group 2020)

Newman, D., Legal Aid Lawyers and the Quest for Justice (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2013)

Regan, F., and others, The Transformation of Legal Aid: Comparative and Historical Studies (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1999)

Controlling costs and new funding approaches

Clark, S., and Jackson, R., The Reform of Civil Justice (2nd ed) (London, Sweet & Maxwell, 2018)

Pirozzolo, R., Litigation Funding Handbook (London, The Law Society, 2014)

Solas, G., M., Third Party Funding: Law, Economics and Policy (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019)

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