Women, Legal Aid and Social Inclusion

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ID11229209
AuthorsRosemary Hunter (0000-0001-7526-6012, corresponding author), Tracey de Simone
Year2009
Volume44
Issue4
Pages379-398
Publication date2009-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAustralian Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0157-6321 • E-ISSN: 1839-4655
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/j.1839-4655.2009.tb00154.x
OpenAlexW1514695643
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited6

This article examines access to legal aid for women in light of the Australian government's social inclusion agenda. It is notable that the government's image of social citizenship does not include the ability to invoke and enforce legal rights, and that discourses of social exclusion have paid relatively little attention to gendered patterns of exclusion. The article reports on a study of applications for and refusals of legal aid for family law, domestic violence and anti‐discrimination matters by socially excluded women in Queensland. It demonstrates the variety of ways in which Legal Aid Queensland's grants process operated to further exclude and marginalise these women. It argues that effective access to legal aid is an important element of social inclusion, but that this goal cannot be achieved by reliance on the tools of New Public Management

Citizenship · Element (criminal law · Government (linguistics · Inclusion (mineral · Inclusion–exclusion principle · Political science · Project commissioning · Public relations · Publishing · Social exclusion · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Legal Issues in South Africa

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