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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.
As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, stark social inequalities have increasingly been revealed and, in many cases, been exacerbated by the global health crisis.
This book explores these inequalities, identifying three thematic strands: power and governance, gender, and marginalised communities. By examining these three themes in relation to the effects of the pandemic, the book uncovers how unequal the pandemic truly is. It brings together invaluable insights from a range of international scholars across multiple disciplines to critically analyse how these inequalities have played out in the context of COVID-19 as a first step towards achieving social justice.
Marriage law in England and Wales is a historical relic which reflects a bygone age.
Successive governments have made a series of progressive but ad hoc reforms, most notably the introduction of civil partnerships and same-sex marriage. However, this has resulted in a legal framework which is complex and controversial, especially in relation to religion.
This book provides the first accessible guide to how contemporary marriage law interacts with religion and identifies pressure points in relation to non-religious organisations and unregistered religious marriages. It reveals the need for the consolidation, modernisation and reform of marriage law and sets out proposals for how the transformation of these laws can be achieved.
Amid a global health crisis, the process for declaring a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) is at a crossroads.
As a formal declaration by the World Health Organization, a PHEIC is governed by clear legislation as to what is, and what is not, deemed a global health security threat. However, it has become increasingly politicized, and the legal criteria now appear to be secondary to the political motivation or outcome of the announcement. Addressing multiple empirical case studies, including COVID-19, this multidisciplinary book explores the relationship between international law and international relations to interrogate how a PHEIC is declared and its role in how we collectively respond to outbreaks.
At a time of rising populism and debate about immigration, leading legal academic Jo Shaw sets out to review interactions between constitutions and constructs of citizenship.
This incisive appraisal is the first sustained treatment of the relationship between citizenship and constitutional law in a comparative and transnational perspective.
Drawing on examples from around the world, it assesses how countries’ legal, political and cultural processes help to determine the boundaries of citizenship.
For students and academics across political, social and international disciplines, Shaw offers an accessible response to some of the most pressing international questions of our age.
Counter-terrorism is now a permanent and sprawling part of the legislative and operational apparatus of the state, yet little is known about the law and practice of how it is reviewed, how effective the review mechanisms are, what impact they have or how they interact with one another.
This book addresses that gap in knowledge by presenting the first comprehensive, critical analysis of counter-terrorism review in the United Kingdom, informed by exclusive interviews with policy makers, politicians, practitioners and civil society.
or mental disability of the cohabitant seeking the order and ‘the conduct of each of the cohabitants, if the conduct is such that, in the opinion of the court, it would be unjust to disregard it’. This, again, is a more expansive and prescriptive list than in the Scottish model. Law Commission proposals The title of the Law Commission’s report, Cohabitation: The Financial Consequences of Relationship Breakdown , shows that their proposals also share a similar focus to the Scottish and Irish models. 11 As the report noted, ‘our priority should be to
had therefore classified it as ‘complex’, despite the clear evidential support. Bella also had a minor child and an adult child with a serious disability and was, as her caseworker said, “understandably at breaking point” as the family depended on asylum support, which did not provide the extra care her disabled child needed. The caseworker felt frustrated at being unable to reach a resolution, which would enable Bella’s husband to join her under the refugee family reunion rules. The caseworker sent a pre-action letter threatening judicial review of the delay. As
power to inspect ships carrying immigrants and refuse entry to those deemed undesirable, generally by reason of poverty, disability or sickness (Clayton, 2016 ). It gave overall responsibility for the scheme to the Home Secretary. It was augmented with new war-related restrictions in 1914 and 1919, but it was not until after World War II, as the British Empire shrank and migration from the colonies and the new Commonwealth grew, that immigration law began to proliferate and drive the development of an immigration legal profession. The Joint Council for the Welfare
obligations, disability and so on), location (via their outward postcode) and other factors that were liable to impact on their experience of restrictions (such as the size of their property, extent of over-crowding, and key-worker status). From 794 expressions of interest, we constructed a purposive sample of 100 participants that: (1) had socio-demographic diversity; and (2) a wide range of living arrangements and other factors that may impact on their experience of lockdown restrictions. Following this initial wave, we invited an additional 34 participants to the
