Rolls Royce or Rundown 1970s Kingswood? Australia's legal aid in comparative perspective.

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dc.contributor.author Regan, Francis
dc.date.accessioned 2006-07-14
dc.date.available 2006-07-14
dc.date.issued 1997
dc.description.abstract The Commonwealth Attorney-General, Daryl Williams’ comment earlier this year that Australia’s legal aid was a ‘Rolls Royce’ scheme was surprisingly ill informed and created an unfortunate perception that legal aid commissions (LACs) were well funded but mismanaged, bloated and wasting public money. The comment was made in order to support the 1996 Budget decision to cut Commonwealth funding to legal aid but as I demonstrate below, it showed a surprising lack of knowledge about Australia’s legal aid scheme. In particular, Williams ignored the evidence demonstrating that Australia’s legal aid is, by comparison with similar large, publicly funded schemes, one of the meanest in the western world. In this article I explore some context issues which may help explain why Williams cut legal aid and then I examine Australia’s scheme in a comparative perspective. en
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dc.identifier.citation Regan, F. 1997. Rolls Royce or Rundown 1970s Kingswood? Australia's legal aid in comparative perspective, 'Alternative Law Journal', vol.22, no.5, 225-228. en
dc.identifier.issn 1037-969X
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1030
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Law Faculty, Monash University, Clayton, Vic en
dc.rights.license In Copyright
dc.subject Legal Studies en
dc.subject Legal Aid en
dc.subject Legal Profession en
dc.subject Francis Regan en
dc.subject.other Australian Standard Research Classification > Law, Justice and Law Enforcement > 390000 > Justice and Legal Studies > 390300 en
dc.title Rolls Royce or Rundown 1970s Kingswood? Australia's legal aid in comparative perspective. en
dc.type Article en
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