Research
May 2008 Ensuring Access to Environmental Justice
In a Report published in May, a working party chaired by the Hon Mr Justice Sullivan declared that changes must be implemented in the court rules on costs that effectively prevent individuals and groups from bringing legal challenges to environmental decisions, if the UK is not to breach the Aarhus Convention.
Ensuring_Environmental_Justice_May_08.pdf
May 2008 Hard Work, Hidden Lives
Research commissioned by the TUC’s Commission on Vulnerable Employees (CoVE) Published in May 2008. Chapter two (page 33) ‘Increasing Awareness and Advice’ sets out the scale of the problem and possible solutions. Hard_Work,_Hidden_Lives_Full_Report_05.08.pdf
Summary: Hard_Work,_Hidden_Lives_05.08.pdf
April 2008 Getting Past Reception
Getting Past Reception: Access and intake systems in Not for Profit legal services providers. Research by Mark Sefton published by the Advice Services Alliance in April 2008.
Getting_Past_Reception_ASA_April_2008.pdf
February 2008 Measuring Outcomes of Employment Advice
Research by Shanta Bhavnani from the Advice Services Alliance on measuring the outcomes of employment advice. Initial findings from the Islington Law Centre pilot. Published in February 2008.
ASA_measuring_outcomes_of_Employment_Advice_Feb_08.pdf
August 2007 Civil and Social Needs in Later Life
Age Concern has just published ‘Civil and Social Justice Needs in Later Life’, which is a report of findings from the Legal Services Research Centre’s secondary analysis of its 2004 national periodic survey.
It is often assumed that later life is a time when there are fewer needs for legal advice and redress because people have completed certain key life stages. However, there is limited evidence about whether this assumption holds true. Other key events might become more relevant in later life, for example moving into sheltered or residential accommodation; substitute decision-making such as Power of Attorney; and end of life issues such as advance care directives, wills and probate.
This data goes some way towards exploring older people’s needs for information and support regarding civil and social justice problems . Our report shows, for example, that giving up and doing nothing about a civil law problem become increasingly common with age - and that being isolated in later life increases the level of stress experienced as a result of problems. The report also highlights a need to expand the information collated and monitored through national surveys.
Age_Concern_CivilSocialJusticereport.pdf
July 2007 Third Sector Review
A Summary from NCVOThird_Sector_Review.doc
Final report by the Treasury and the Cabinet Office future_of_the_third_sector_in_social_economicregeneration.pdf
May 2007 Advice in the Future
Report providing an analysis of the future changes that are most likely to affect advice organisation in the next ten years.
The Report was written by Natelie Williams and Megan Griffith from NCVO Third Sector Foresight.
Advice_in_the_Future_Summary_May_2007.pdf
Advice_in_the_Future_05.07.pdf
May 2007 LECG Review of Proposals for Legal Aid
LECG conducted a review of the new working arrangements and Best Value Tendering which was finalised on 30th April. The review by Peter Grindley was published by the Law Society. LECG_Report_Review_of_Proposals_for_Legal_Aid_.pdf
April 2007 Access to advice denied: Young people failed by civil justice system
In April 2007, Youth Access launched two pieces research that indicated that investment in targeted legal advice would be cost-effective in reducing exclusion.
Highlights from the research: Youth_Access_Research.doc
Young People’s Social Welfare Needs and the Impact of Good Advice: Report of seminar for senior policy makers. : Young_Peoples_Social_Welfare_Needs_and_the_Impact_of_Good_Advice_February_2007.pdf
Young People’s Social Welfare Needs and the Impact of Good Advice: Issues Paper. An independent report by consultant, Yve Schelhaas. The report includes a section on Streetwise Community Law Centre. The report confirms that “specialist young people services take longer, but achieve much better outcomes for young people e.g. 62% of Streetwise’s housing & homelessness cases achieve ‘housed, re-housed or retained home’ compared to 31% of all NfP housing cases for 17-24s”: Young_Peoples_Social_Welfare_Needs_and_the_Impact_of_Good_Advice_Issues_Paper_2007.doc
Collated evidence on young people;s preferred modes of access to advice:
Collated_evidence_on_young_peoples_preferred_modes_of_access_to_advice.doc
Also see ‘Young People and Civil Justice’ an LSRC report below (February 2007)
April 2007 Human Rights Act - Changing Lives
Seven years on from the introduction of the Human Rights Act, a new report from the British Institute of Human Rights challenges the perception that the law is being used solely by criminals or celebrities.
The Human Rights Act - Changing Lives shows how people from different backgrounds are using human rights arguments to challenge shoddy treatment from public services without having to go to court.
BIHR_Human_Rights_Changing_Lives_April_2007.pdf
The report was written by Sonya Sceats, Policy and Research, BIHR
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