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Background
Social welfare legal needs (matters of daily life, such as finances, housing and employment with legal rights, entitlements or protections) are prevalent towards end of life, creating significant difficulties for both patients and carers. Most people do not know where to go, although a range of services provide advice and support for add...
This article traces the development and growth of health justice partnerships (HJPs) in three countries: the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.
Background
Welfare legal problems and inadequate access to support services follow both the socioeconomic and the health inequalities gradients. Health Justice Partnership (HJP) is an international practitioner-led movement which brings together legal and healthcare professionals to address the root causes of ill health from negative social determi...
As the first woman to be appointed President of the UK Supreme Court, Brenda Hale was one of the UK's most high profile and influential judges, and she is among the most powerful women leaders of our time. For almost half a century, she pioneered as an educator, reformer, and decision-maker, leaving a distinct mark on the law and the lives of many....
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Social welfare legal problems are root causes of health inequality. Legal advice services can improve socio-economic circumstances and mitigate the financial and social costs of illness. With these aims, partnerships between healthcare and legal services exist across England to support patients with welfare needs. They occur in diverse h...
Background: Health-justice partnerships (HJPs) are collaborations between healthcare and legal services which support patients with social welfare issues such as welfare benefits, debt, housing, education and employment. HJPs exist across the world in a variety of forms and with diverse objectives. This review synthesizes the international evidence...
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Legal issues are common in chronic illness. These include matters of daily life, such as problems with employment, finances and housing, where rights or entitlements are prescribed by law. They also include planning ahead, for example, making a Lasting Power of Attorney. However, the nature, impact and management of legal needs in the co...
Objective: Little is known about legal needs in the context of life-limiting illness, particularly the need for advice concerning legal arrangements, rights and entitlements. This UK-based multi-agency stakeholder engagement exercise scoped legal needs associated with life-limiting illness and identified support structures, gaps and opportunities f...
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Social welfare legal problems impact negatively on mental and physical health. These include issues with welfare benefits, debt, homelessness, family and employment. Services providing legal assistance have developed collaborations with healthcare across the UK and the globe. These ‘health-justice partnerships’ aim to support health of t...
Purpose
This paper aims to introduce the concept of “health-justice partnership” (HJP), the provision of legal assistance for social welfare issues in health-care settings. It discusses the role of these partnerships in supporting health and care for people with mental health issues.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors describe an example of a...
Access to justice research over two decades has documented the health-harming effects of unmet legal needs. There is growing evidence of bidirectional links between law and health demonstrating that social problems with a legal dimension can exacerbate or create ill health and, conversely that ill-health can create legal problems. Independently, so...
Background
Life-limiting illness generates an array of challenges for patients and carers but little is known about legal issues. There is no definition of legal issues in this context and limited integration of care across health, social, advice, legal and charitable sectors although all contribute to holistic care.
Aims
The Legal Needs of Adults...
A mapping study to identify and describe the characteristics of services providing assistance with social welfare legal issues in healthcare settings across England and Wales.
My subject this evening is that of online courts and – more broadly - the potential of technology for reshaping the public justice system. Our world is changing rapidly through technological development. I am neither a technology enthusiast nor sceptic. But I am interested in how technology is already altering how we ‘do justice’ and how our system...
The civil justice system supports social order and economic activity, but a number of factors over the last decade have created a situation in which the value of civil justice is being undermined and the civil courts are in a state of dilapidation. For the 2008 Hamlyn Lectures, Dame Hazel Genn discusses reforms to civil justice in England and aroun...
The mediation movement in Britain over the last 15 years has been enormously successful in establishing a firm place in policy debates on the administration of civil and family justice. Arguably, it has taken the lead and framed the content of debate outside the criminal sphere. The mediation movement has challenged the purpose of the civil and fam...
This report presents evaluations of two mediation programmes in Central London County Court within the context of the changing Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) policy environment.
The mediation programmes evaluated in the study comprise:
�- an experiment in quasi-compulsory mediation (ARM) which ran in the
court between April 2004 and March 20...
This article investigates the utility of the term ‘institutional racism’, using a study of the experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic [BME] people within the civil justice ‘system’ in England and Wales. The study is based on the results of the Legal Services Research Centre's Periodic Survey of Justiciable Problems, detailing 5,611 respondents’ e...
This paper discusses evidence from England about the background, objectives, and impact of the Woolf reforms on court and ADR dispute resolution processes. It sets the discussion in the context of the differing objectives of parties in litigation and the need for dispute resolution processes to be affordable for the parties and the taxpayer. It als...
In the United Kingdom, recognition of the links between social and health problems has led to government initiatives such as health action zones. The principles of civil law apply to many types of social problem, and the civil justice system provides one means through which they can be tackled. However, little research has been undertaken into the...
Justiciable problems do not always occur in isolation. However, little empirical research has examined multiple problems in depth by identifying common clusters of problems, their extent, and those who experience them. The Legal Services Research Centre's Periodic Survey of Justiciable Problems is a large-scale survey undertaken in England and Wale...
STUDY OBJECTIVE: In the United Kingdom, recognition of the links between social and health problems has led to government initiatives such as health action zones. The principles of civil law apply to many types of social problem, and the civil justice system provides one means through which they can be tackled. However, little research has been und...
In this article, we examine the situation of disabled people in England and Wales with regard to one specific aspect of social exclusion—experience of justiciable problems, and the potential effects such problems can have on their lives. Having defined ‘disability’, we examine how this fits within the wider dialogue on social exclusion issues. By a...
The percentage of dependent children living in lone-parent families has more than tripled in Britain over the last 30 years. Though there is much diversity within this lone-parent population, there are common experiences and characteristics. Lone-parent families tend to be headed by women, to be poor, on benefits and experience problems with ill he...
This book provides an insight into the relationship between 'justiciable' problems and deprivation and demonstrates the role of advice and legal services in the fight against social exclusion.
A number of key findings can be taken from this report. For example, one in five justicible problems result in no action being taken, this can be because peo...
In this paper we report some of the first findings of the LSRC periodic survey of justiciable problems. We confirm the prevalence of justiciable problems amongst the general population. We identify important differences in the experiences of discrete socio-demographic populations, not only in terms of the number of problems faced, but also in terms...
This report presents an evaluation of the Commercial Court's practice of issuing ADR Orders in selected commercial disputes (Chapters 2 to 4) and a review of the Court of Appeal's mediation scheme established in 1996 (Chapter 5). The broad findings of these evaluations are combined in the final Chapter of the report with the results of an earlier e...
Book description:
The publication in 1999 of Paths to Justice presented the results of the most wide-ranging survey of public use of and attitudes towards the civil justice system ever conducted in England and Wales by either an independent body or government
agency. Paths to Justice in Scotland replicates that survey,focusing upon the experiences...
Reporting the findings of a large national survey in the United Kingdom, this study examines different systems of compensation and support for the injured, ill, or congenitally handicapped and their families. The authors assess the roles of government agencies, local authorities, employers, and informal organizations in providing such services as s...
A common method of reducing costs in both personal and mail surveys is to require one member of a household to provide information about himself personally and about others in the household by proxy. In personal interviewing, where the cost of interviewer time in locating an individual forms a substantial proportion of the final cost of the survey,...
Having rejected alternative sources of data for our survey of compensation and support and accepted that empirical work must be undertaken, we began to confront the problems of definition. What precisely were the misfortunes we were to screen for? The project set out to examine the social and economic consequences of illness and injury, i.e. we had...
The study population of interest in our survey of compensation and support was likely to have only one common factor — that the group had suffered some physical or mental damage which had either temporarily or permanently impaired the ability to function normally. From this heterogeneous group, information on a wide range of subjects was to be gath...
This chapter deals with some of the issues involved in the choice of the most appropriate method of data collection for our research. Having decided to undertake a screening survey of the general population, it was necessary to adopt a research strategy that would provide the information we required in a reliable and relatively economical way. Pilo...
Having decided to conduct a screening survey of the general population, which would clearly be a costly exercise, it was vital to seek a sample design which would meet the research objectives at the minimum cost. This chapter describes the design developed to screen for a small subgroup, widely dispersed within the general population. We deal with...
Gedurende de afgelopen tien jaar is de belangstelling voor Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in Engeland en Wales snel toegenomen. Er is de laatste tijd veel aandacht geweest voor de ontwikkelingen op het gebied van mediation. Hoewel er al sinds de jaren zeventig (op burenruzies gerichte en door vrijwilligers gerunde) buurtbemidde-lingsprojecten...
This is a study of access, expectations, experiences and outcomes of tribunal hearings from the perspective of tribunal users in three tribunals: the Appeals Service, Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel, and Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal. The study was designed specifically to compare the experiences of White, Black, an...
