Lawyers and the Public Good: Democracy in Action? (The Hamlyn Lectures)

Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
List of Tables......Page 10
List of Illustrations......Page 11
The Hamlyn Trust......Page 13
The Hamlyn Lectures......Page 17
Acknowledgements......Page 21
1 Introduction: determining the public good......Page 25
2 Professionalism re-assessed: what now for lawyers?......Page 29
Solicitors: a profession in crisis?......Page 30
The renegotiation of professionalism......Page 40
Status......Page 42
Reasonable rewards......Page 43
Restraints on competition and market control......Page 46
Numbers: market control on supply of producers......Page 48
Regulation and autonomy......Page 52
Expertise......Page 58
Access......Page 61
Service ethic......Page 63
Public protection......Page 65
Frontiers of lawyer liability to third parties: extending the public interest......Page 66
Counsel......Page 68
Conclusion......Page 77
The public good and access to justice......Page 83
The history of legal aid......Page 87
The theoretical justification for state-based legal aid......Page 92
Challenges for legal aid and access to justice......Page 95
Strategic planning......Page 96
Affordability, rationing and prioritisation......Page 97
Integrating supply and demand......Page 100
Strategic planning......Page 104
Community Legal Service......Page 105
Policy reform......Page 110
Quality assurance......Page 111
Affordability, rationing and prioritisation......Page 112
Introducing a cap on legal aid expenditure......Page 113
Adjusting scope: the position of money claims......Page 114
Eligibility......Page 117
Integrating supply and demand......Page 118
The vulnerabilities of contracts......Page 119
Investing for the future......Page 121
State salaried legal aid lawyers......Page 122
Overall......Page 123
The comparative problem......Page 124
Leadership......Page 125
The way forward: the complex, planned mixed model......Page 128
New money......Page 131
Expenditure control and prioritisation......Page 137
Integrating supply and demand......Page 138
New providers......Page 139
New forms of delivery......Page 140
Conclusion......Page 144
4 Judges and the public good: reflections on the last Law Lords......Page 149
The dialogue with the Government: inter-governmental relations......Page 153
Separation of powers......Page 158
The challenge of accountability......Page 161
More diversity......Page 165
Judicial selection......Page 170
Judicial appointment and the Supreme Court......Page 172
Greater disclosure and transparency......Page 176
Judicial decision-making......Page 179
Law Lords and counsel......Page 184
Law Lords and Law Lords......Page 186
Belmarsh......Page 211
5 Conclusion: where next?......Page 218
Bibliography......Page 222
Index......Page 236