Clustered Injustice and the Level Green - Couverture souple

Clements, Luke

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1913648079 ISBN 13 : 9781913648077

Editeur : Legal Action Group, 2020

Synopsis

This book is concerned with the legal problems encountered by people whose lives are disadvantaged: disabled people, carers, homeless people, people on low incomes, people falling foul of immigration law it is a long list. People in this position often experience multiple and synchronous legal problems ( clustered problems ) for which the traditional single issue lawyering approach is ill equipped.

Such people to cite Stephen Wexler do not lead settled lives into which the law seldom intrudes; they are constantly involved with the law in its most intrusive forms . Their legal challenges don t come in single discrete packages (eg a personal injury claim, a house purchase, a divorce) but are multiple, interlinked and successional. No sooner has one problem been addressed than another is encountered.

This book explores the causes and the effects of clustered injustice, describing the harm that results and why core responsibility for this harm rest squarely with the state. The analysis draws on systems thinking and vulnerability theories, as well using gaming analogies to illustrate the invidious position of people who experience clustered injustice: people compelled to play legal and administrative games in which the odds are heavily stacked against them.

Book structure:

Introduction the meaning of clustered injustice

The grain of the law the loaded nature of the law and its bias towards those who enjoy advantage

What s your problem? the legal system s inability to deal with entangled clusters of problems except by fragmenting them into their disconnected elements

Juridification the proliferation of laws and the problems that result: mental capacity and identity laws as examples

Parcelling-out of the soul public sector bureaucracies and the damage caused by command and control systems

Harm the physical and mental harm caused to those experiencing clustered injustice

Doing justice how a responsive state would and should address the phenomenon of clustered injustice

Appendix brief overviews of various groups who experience clustered injustice

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Legal Action Group
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913648079
• ISBN 13: 9781913648077
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible