Lawyers for the Poor by Katherine Bradley - 9781526136053

Katherine Bradley

Lawyers for the PoorLegal Advice, Voluntary Action and Citizenship in England, 18901990\nAuthor(s): Katherine Bradley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Manchester University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Manchester University Press\nISBN-13: 9781526136053, 978-1526136053\nSynopsis\nFrom the 1890s onwards, social reformers, volunteer lawyers, and politicians increasingly came to see access to affordable or free legal advice as a critical part of helping working-class people uphold their rights with landlords, employers, and retailers and, from the 1940s, with the welfare state. Whilst a state scheme was launched in 1949, it was never fully implemented and help from a lawyer remained out of the reach of many people. Lawyers for the poor is the first full-length study of the development of voluntary action and mutual schemes to make the law more accessible, and the pressure put on the legal profession and governments to bring in further reforms. It offers new insights of the role of ac.