Access to justice policy: Legal Aid in post-war UK General Election manifestos

Newman, Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3735-1026 2025. Access to justice policy: Legal Aid in post-war UK General Election manifestos. International Journal of the Legal Profession 10.1080/09695958.2024.2446418

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Abstract

This paper explores access to justice policy in England and Wales. This is achieved through a legal history approach analysing the treatment of, an important element of such policy, legal aid in UK general election manifestos. The paper covers the period from 1945, with the creation of the welfare state and the introduction of a formal legal aid system. It focuses on the two main parties that have led all the governments of that period, the Conservative and Unionist Party (Conservatives) and the Labour Party (Labour). The paper charts the rise and fall of legal aid in the general election manifesto, documenting an access to justice policy that falls into two distinct eras of social democracy and neoliberalism.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Cardiff Law & Politics Law
Subjects:	J Political Science > JA Political science (General) K Law > KD England and Wales
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
ISSN:	0969-5958
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	15 January 2025
Date of Acceptance:	1 November 2024
Last Modified:	06 Feb 2025 13:28
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/174877

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