Delivering Family Justice in Late Modern Society in the wake of Legal Aid Reform

Mavis Maclean has carried out empirical research in family justice for many years, and founded the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy with John Eekelaar in Oxford in 2001. She has worked as an academic adviser to the Ministry of Justice, and edits the JSWFL with Helen Stalford.

• Introduction: Late modern justice for the family 1. Legal aid reform: its impact on family law 2. Analysing the economic justification for the reforms to social welfare and family law legal aid 3. Self-represented litigants: the overlooked and unintended consequence of legal aid reform 4. Changing the immigration rules and withdrawing the ‘currency’ of legal aid: the impact of LASPO 2012 on migrants and their families 5. The impact of cuts in legal aid funding on charities 6. Back for the future: a client centred analysis of social welfare and family law provision 7. Arbitration in financial dispute resolution: the final step to reconstructing the default(s) and exception(s)? 8. When legal rights are not a reality: do individuals know their rights and how can we tell?