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Making Legal Aid Work: a handbook for practitioners is the only comprehensive single-volume guide to the civil and criminal legal aid scheme available. It is full of case studies, checklists and practical hints that draw on the considerable experience of the authors.

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In this timely book the authors describe the origins and history of legal aid as well as New Labour's attempts to reform the system years on. They argue that on its 60th anniversary legal aid has fallen short of its original aims. There exists a marked difference between the numbers of cases pursued to enforce rights and the many potential cases that people never take up as they are either not aware of their rights or they decide it is not worth the trouble to take it further - this is 'the justice gap'.

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This practical guide is packed with useful advice for managing a legal aid firm in times of change. The book brings together all the important issues affecting legal aid firms - particularly focusing on how they need to adopt in order to meet the demands of the Legal Services Commission and the existing competitive environment.

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This title is now out of print. However, you may be interested in Making a Success of Legal Aid.

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